Frances Gies (1915–2013)
Autore di Life in a Medieval Castle
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: France and Joseph Gies
Opere di Frances Gies
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Gies, Frances
- Altri nomi
- Carney Gies, France (Nom d'alliance)
- Data di nascita
- 1915-06-10
- Data di morte
- 2013-12-18
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- United States of America
- Luogo di nascita
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Auburn, Maine, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
New York, New York, USA
Hempstead, New York, USA
Wilton, Connecticut, USA
Barrington, Illinois, USA
Oakton, Virginia, USA - Istruzione
- University of Michigan (BA|1937|MA|1938)
- Attività lavorative
- historian
scholar
author
teacher - Relazioni
- Gies, Joseph (husband)
- Organizzazioni
- High school English in Caro, Michigan (Teacher, 19 40 | 19 42)
- Breve biografia
- Frances Gies, née Carney, was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a daughter of Prof. Robert John Carney and his wife Frances Gibson Carney. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan in 1937 with a B.A. degree, and in 1938 earned an M.A. in English and a teacher’s certificate. In 1940, after teaching high school English in Caro, Michigan, for two years, she went to New York City. There she married Joseph Gies, a writer who also hailed from Ann Arbor, with whom she had three children. Frances worked as a reader for the story department of 20th Century-Fox, while her husband was an editor at This Week Magazine, the Sunday magazine of the New York Herald Tribune. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army in France and Germany. After the war, they began a new career as historians and writers collaborating on a dozen books about life in the Middle Ages, including Women in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City, Life in a Medieval Castle, Life in a Medieval Village, and Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel. She also wrote individual works, including Joan of Arc: The Legend and the Reality, and The Knight in History.
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- Opere
- 14
- Utenti
- 7,306
- Popolarità
- #3,344
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 55
- ISBN
- 73
- Lingue
- 4
Any book that tries to sum up "medieval times" for a popular audience is going to do a lot of simplifying, but this one does a pretty good job as far as I, who am Not A Historian, can tell. It's a work of popular history and a bit older but makes extensive use of primary documents and, gratifyingly, tackles towns and villages as well as castle life.
The illustrations were added after the fact for this hardcover compilation, but they're for the most part carefully selected from medieval Books of Hours and other manuscripts - only a scattering of irrelevant Victorian illustrations.
If you're reading this review, you MAY be a writer (or artist, tabletop gamer, reenactor, etc.) Another work I recommend is Daily Life in the Middle Ages by Paul B. Newman, which was fabulous for small details of material culture. And Dorothy Hartley's Lost Country Life is quirky and dated but has a lot of good stuff about the rhythms of agricultural life.
Now if only there were more accessible books out there on non-Western material culture / social history. Heck, even coverage of eastern Europe is lacking in English. I try to create fantasy worlds that break the medieval mold, but I keep coming back to medieval/early modern Western Europe, and especially Britain, simply because of my confidence with my ability to handle the source material. Sigh.… (altro)