Medieval Wordbook: More Than 4,000 Terms and Expressions from Medieval Culture by Cosman, Madeleine Pelner - 1996

New York: Facts on File, Inc, 1996. First Edition.. Hardcover. Good/Good. Type: Ex-Library First Printing. Hardcover Ex-Lib Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Minimal lib markings--except for these, this book and jacket are like new. Black & white illustrations throughout. Black full cloth binding with gilt-bordered panel on spine, gilt titled within. Very clean, no other markings, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Internals are pristine. Medieval jacket design by Dorothy Wachtenheim. This book celebrates the vocabulary of the medieval period, the era of European history dating roughly from A. D. 500 to 1500--one millennium of life, love, food, ideas, medicine, art, and war. There are over 4,000 words from this period in this Medieval Wordbook. The reader explorer will discover the source of many words and phrases that we use today; for example "Gossip: from the Anglo-Saxon "god sib". or "sister in God", meaning a friendlt woman companion. This book is full of wonderrful anecdotes and literary, pictorial, and sociological references to everything from merchants to poets, to architecture and beer halls. A unique work. ix plus 294 pages including Subject Index and Name Index. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Facts on File, Inc., New York, 1996.