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Medieval Woman

Village Life in the Middle Ages

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Medieval Woman

By: Ann Baer
Narrated by: Sarah Whitehouse
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A history of peasants in the Middle Ages, the story takes the listener into the life of Marion, the carpenter's wife, and her extended family as they struggle to survive through hardship, featuring a year in their lives at the mercy of the weather and the Lord of the Manor.

Existing without soap, paper or glass and only with the most basic of tools, we learn how they survive starvation, sickness, fire and natural disaster in their home on the edge of the Weald.

©1998 Ann Baer (P)2017 Audible, Ltd Historical Fiction Fiction Middle Ages Survival Mediaeval Women Middle Ages Fiction
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What an amazing book, bringing to life the story of an everyday medieval village woman as she lives and works throughout a year - LOVED IT!!!

Wonderful!!

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My all time favourite novel is brought to life with a wonderful narration. You can picture the scenes and characters in your mind. An absolute must for any history lovers, of course especially those who love medieval history.

Perfect novel with perfect narration

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this wasn't exactly what I was looking for and I fall just outside the target audience so take my review with a grain of salt. this is a strong feminist text detailing the year of one medieval woman. her life is hard, dreary, centres around her responsibilities to her children, husband and the village. i found it a little boring. i was looking for something akin to a rutherford novel or illuminating of history. and yes there are plenty of interesting tidbits but it wasn't quite enough to push this good/ok novel into a must read. more a feminist text than historical I think and nothing wrong with that just not my cup of tea today

unique historical fiction

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