Intro This article brings together several aspects of customs and daily life in the Middle Ages. We will study successively: Urban life in the Middle Ages, with the expansion of the communes and the description of Paris Peasant life in the countryside Popular entertainment such as fairs or knights
If there was a ritual associated with the consumption of wine in Greece, it was the symposium. It was the time for drinking and chatting among the guests - only men - after finishing the main meal (deipnon ). At the end of the meal, the servants cleared the tables, decorated the guests with ivy crow
The 9th century was a strange time. Europe was once again in upheaval. The legendary Frankish empire of Charlemagne was nearing its end. Vikings roamed the seas. But what is almost more striking than the political upheavals of the time is how stupid the rulers were actually named at the time. At tha
After the conquest of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, a Christian kingdom was established in the Mediterranean Levant, within Muslim territory, which would survive for two centuries, until the fall of Saint John of Acre. After Godfrey of Bouillón take the title of Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri , Pr