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About this audiobook
Step beyond castles and battlefields and discover the intimate material world of medieval life. Food, Clothing, and Everyday Comforts explores how people across the Middle Ages ate, dressed, cooked, kept warm, cared for their bodies, treated illness, and transformed simple possessions into sources of security and status.
From the bread that sustained peasant households and the ale poured in crowded taverns to aristocratic banquets rich with spices, this book reveals how food reflected agriculture, religion, trade, and social hierarchy. It follows wool from sheep to finished clothing, examines the changing fashions of peasants, merchants, and nobles, and enters medieval cottages, townhouses, monasteries, and great halls to uncover the realities of furniture, lighting, heating, bathing, medicine, and domestic comfort.
Far from the crude and uniformly miserable world often imagined today, medieval society possessed sophisticated traditions of cooking, textile production, personal care, household management, and material display. At the same time, everyday comfort remained fragile, dependent upon harvests, fuel, labor, wealth, and the changing seasons.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length7 hrs 58 mins
Narrated bySantiago Machain
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
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