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Gitlin, Marty.

Summary: This entertaining volume reveals some of the grossest practices in hygiene, dining, fashion, and medicine of Medieval Europe. Serfs often smelled bad, and they bathed and relieved themselves in streams filled with garbage. Wealthier individuals who had bathrooms produced waste that was sent down chutes into the castle moat. Peasants and nobles commonly consumed animal parts that today we would...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 GIT

Vink, Amanda

Summary: Though Europe does not boast a large land area, it contains some of the most distinct and well-known cultural histories in the world. Throughout the continent's long history, borders between countries have been drawn and redrawn countless times, resulting in a unique record of cross-cultural exchange that will captivate the imagination of your readers. Use this book to introduce them to the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940 VIN

Hardyman, Robyn

Summary: Presents several of the most dangerous, dirty, and otherwise unpleasant jobs done in medieval times, including peasant, bog iron collector, woad dyer, fuller, barber-surgeon, and plague doctor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 HAR

Bancroft-Hunt, Norman.

Summary: Explores the civilization of medieval Europe by examining all aspects of daily life across all strata of society and focusing on the cycles of farming and trade, marriage and family life, education and entertainment.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 BAN

Steele, Philip

Summary: Examines various aspects of life during the Middle Ages, including the feudal system, knights and chivalry, life in a castle, and battle during medieval times.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2006

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 913.37 Ste

Levy, Janice.

Summary: Simple text and color illustrations present the historical background and contemporary celebration of the Cinco de Mayo holiday.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2007

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 LEV SPANISH

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