ISBN: 9788174790934    Publisher: Kaveri Year of publishing: 2009     Format:  Hardcover No of Pages: 435        Language: English

ounter of dealers fairs and markets manufactures commerce industry and fashion and dress will attract the attention of the reader in this work. The author has taken great pains in reproducing by means of strict facsimiles the engraving and chromolithography pertaining to the Middle Ages and the rarest engravings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as well as the most precious miniatures of the manuscripts preserved in principal libraries of Europe. This has not made it easier to understand the subject under study more intimately but has also added to the beauty and value of the book. The detailed introduction by the Editor provides added and latest information about the subject under study. It is hoped that the book and the subject would be of greatest interest not only to the man of science and students of European history but to the common man of the world also. Besides the way the book has been produced it can be an excellent coffee table book. Contents Chapter 1: Condition of Persons and Land; Disorganization of the West at the Beginning of the Middle Ages, Mixture of Roman Germanic and Gallic Institutions Fusions organized under Charlemagne, Royal Authority, Position of the Great Feudalists, Division of the Territory and Prerogatives attached to Landed Possessions, Freeman and Tenants, The Laeti, The Colon, The Serf, and the Labourer, Who May be Called the Origin of the Modern Lower Classes, Formation of Communities, Right of Mortmain; Chapter 2: Privileges and Rights (Feudal and Municipal); Elements of Feudalism, Rights of Treasure trove, Sporting, Safe Conducts, Ransom, Disinheritance, Immunity of the Feudalists, Dues from the Nobles to their Sovereign, Law and University Dues, Curious Exactions resulting from the Universal System of Dues, Struggles to enfranchise the Classes subjected to Dues, Feudal Spirit and Citizen Spirit, Resuscitation of the System of Ancient Municipalities in Italy, Germany, France Municipal Institutions and Associations, The Community, The Middle Class Cities, Origin of National Unity; Chapter 3: Private Life in The Castles The Towns and The Rural Districts; The Merovingian Castles, Pastimes of the Nobles Hunting War, Domestic Arrangements, Private Life of Charlemagne, Domestic Habits under the Carlovingians, Influence of Chivalry, Simplicity of the Court of Philip Augustus not imitated by his Successors, Princely Life of the Fifteenth Century, The bringing up of Latour Landry, a Noble of Anjou, Varlets Pages Esquires, Maids of Honour, Opulence of the Bourgeoisie, Le Menagier de Paris, Ancient Dwellings, State of Rustics at various Periods, Rustic Sayings by Novel du Fail; Chapter 4: Food and Cookery; History of Bread, Vegetables and Plants used in Cooking, Fruits, Butchers Meat poultry Game, Milk Butter Cheese and Eggs, Fish and Shellfish, Beverages Beer Cider Wine Sweet Wine Refreshing Drinks Brandy, Cookery, Soups, Boiled Food, Pies, Stews, Salads, Roasts, Grills Seasoning, Truffles, Sugar, Verjuice, Sweets, Desserts, Pastry, Meals and Feasts, Rules of Serving at Table from the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries; Chapter 5: Hunting: Venery and Hawking, Origin of Aix la Chapella, Gaston Phoebus and his Book The Presiding Deities of Sportsmen, Sporting Societies and Brotherhoods Sporting Kings Charlemagne Louis IX Louis XI Charles VIII Louis XII Francis I, Treatise on Venery, Sporting Popes, Origin of Hawking Training Birds, Hawking Retinues, Book of King Modus, Technical Terms Used in Hawking, Persons who Have excelled in this kind of Sport, Fowling; Chapter 6: Games and Pastimes; Games of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, Games of the Circus, Animal Combats, Daring of King Pepin, The Kings Lions Blind Men's Fights, Cockneys of Paris, Champ de Mars, Cours Plenieres and Cours Couronnees, Jugglers, Tumblers, and Minstrels, Rope dancers, Fireworks, Gymnastics, Cards and Dice, Chess, Marbles and Billiards, La Soule, La Pirouette, Small Games for Private Society, History of Dancing, Ballet des Ardents, The Orchesographie, of Thoinot Arbeau, List of Dances; Chapter 7: Commerce; State of Commerce after the Fall of the Roman Empire its Revival under the Frankish King its Prosperity under Charlemagne, its Decline down to the Time of the Crusaders, The Levant Trade of the East, Flourishing State of the Towns of Provence and Languedoc, Establishment of Fairs, Fairs of Landit Champagne Beaucaire and Lyons, Weights and Measures, Commercial Flanders, Laws of Maritime Commerce, Consular Laws, Banks and Bills of Exchange, French Settlements on the Coast of Africa, Consequences of the Discovery of America; Chapter 8: Guilds and Trade Corporations; Uncertain Origin of Corporations, Ancient Industrial Associations, The Germanic Guild, Colleges, Teutonic Associations, The Paris Company for the Transit of Merchandise by Water, Corporations Properly so Called, Etienne Boileau's Book of Trades or the First Code of Regulations, The Laws Governing Trade, Public and Private Organization of Trades Corporations and other Communities, Energy of the Corporations, Masters, Journeymen, Supernumeraries and Apprentices, Religious Festivals and Trade Societies, Trade Unions; Chapter 9: Taxes Money and Finance; Taxes Under the Roman Rule, Money Exactions of the Merovingian Kings, Varieties of Money, Financial Laws under Charlemagne, Missi Dominici, Increase of Taxes owing to the Crusades, Organization of Finance by Louis IX, Extortions of Philp lo Bel, Pecuniary Embarrassment of his Successors, Charles V re-establishes Order in Finance, Disasters of France under Charles VI Charles VII and Jacques Coeur, Changes in Taxation from Louis XI to Francis I, The Great Financiers, Florimond Robertet; Chapter 10: Law and The Administration of Justice; The Family the Origin of Government, Origin of Supreme Power amongst the Franks, The Legislation of Barbarism humanised by Christianity, Right of Justice inherent to the Right of Property, The Laws Under Charlemagne, Judicial Forms Witnesses, Duels Organization of Royal Justice under St Louis, The Chatelet and the Provost of Paris, Jurisdiction of Parliament its Duties and its Responsibilities, The Bailiwicks, Struggles between Parliament and the Chatelet Codification of the Customs and Usages, Official Cupidity, Comparison between the Parliament and the Chatelet; Chapter 11: Secret Tribunals; The Old Man of the Mountain and his Followers in Syria, The Castle of Alamond, Paradies of Assassins, Charlemagne the Founder of Secret Tribunals amongst the Saxons, The Holy Vehme, Organization of the Tribunal of the Terre Rouge and Modes adopted in its Procedures, Condemnations and Execution of Sentences, The Truth Respecting the Free Judges of Westphalia, Duration and Fall of the Vehmie Tribunal, Council of Ten in Venice its Code and Secret Decisions, End of the Council of Ten; Chapter 12: Punishments; Refinements of Penal Cruelty, Tortures for different Purpose, Water Screw boards and the Rack, The Executioner, Female Executioners, Tortures, Amende Honorable Torture of Fire Real and Feigned, Auto da fa Red hot Brazier or Basin, Beheading, Quartering, The Wheel, Garotting Hanging, The Whip, The Pillory, The Arquebuse, Tickling Flaying Drowning, Imprisonment, Regulations of Prisons, The Iron Cage, The Leads of Venice; Chapter 13: Jews; Dispersion of the Jews, Jewish Quarters in the Medival Towns, The Ghetto of Rome, Ancient Prague, The giudecca of Venice, Conditions of the Jaws, Animosity of the People ageinst them, Vexations Treatment and Severity of the Sovereigns, The Jews of Lincoln, The Jews of Blois, Mission of the Pastoureaux, Extermination of the Jjews, The Price at which the Jews Purchased Indulgences, Marks set upon them, Wealth Knowledge Industry and Financial Aptitude of the Jews, Regulations Respecting Usury as Practised by the Jews, Attachment of the Jews to their Religion; Chapter 14: Gipsies Tramps Beggars and Cours Des Miracles; First Appearance of Gipsies in the West, Gipsies in Paris, Manners and Customs of these Wandering Tribes, Tricks of Captain Charles Gipsies expelled by Royal Edict, Language of Gipsies, The Kingdom of Slang, The Great Coesre Chief of the Vagrants his Vassals and Subjects, Divisions of the Slang People its Decay and the Causes there of, Cours des Miracles, The Camp of Rogues, Cunning Language or Slang, Foreign Rogues Thieves and Pickpockets; Chapter 15: Ceremonials; Origin of Modern Ceremonial, Uncertainty of French Ceremonial up to the End of the Sixteenth Century, Consecration of the Kings of France Coronation of the Emperors of Germany, Consecration of the Doges of Venice, Marriage of the Dogs with the Sea, State Entries of Sovereigns, An Account of the Entry of Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, Seats of Justice, Visits of Ceremony between Persons of Rank, Mourning, Social Courtesies, Popular Demonstrations and National Commemorations New Year's day Local Festivals, Vins d Honneur, Processions of Trades; Chapter 16: Costumes; Influence of Ancient Costume, Costume in the Fifteenth Century, Hair Costumes in the Time of Charlemagne, Origin of Modern National Dress, Head dresses and Beard: Time of St Louis, Progress of Dress: Trousers Hose Shoes Coats Surcoats Capes, Changes in the Fashions of Shoes and Hoods, Livree Cloaks and Capes, Edicts against Extravagant Fashions, Female Dress Gowns Bonnets Head dresses Disappearance of Ancient Dress, Tight Fitting Gowns, General Character of Dress under Francies I, Uniformity of Dress
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