Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period, credited to Paul Lacroix, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period, by Paul Lacroix (1806-1884). Read by Leni, Donna Stewart, Ruth Golding, Jim Clevenger, hearhis and Clacas. A comprehensive and detailed account of medieval life and culture in France, with reference to other parts of Europe, including chapters on private life, food, hunting, games and pastimes, costume, privileges and rights, justice, commerce, finance, and punishments. The Project Gutenberg text of the book has over 400 illustrations. Warning: Sections 27 and 28, Punishments, may be disturbing to those of a sensitive disposition. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period
• Author credits: Paul Lacroix
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 17:05:26

Catalogue topics

• hisotry
• France
• Europel medieval
• mediaeval, middle ages
• culture
• politics
• justice
• trade

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 00 - Preface — 8:37
2. 01 - Condition of Persons and Lands, Part 1 — 17:14
3. 02 - Condition of Persons and Lands, Part 2 — 24:27
4. 03 - Privileges and Rights (Feudal and Municipal), Part 1 — 18:38
5. 04 - Privileges and Rights (Feudal and Municipal), Part 2 — 30:53
6. 05 - Private Life in the Castles, the Towns, and the Rural Districts, Part 1 — 21:54
7. 06 - Private Life in the Castles, the Towns, and the Rural Districts, Part 2 — 27:22
8. 07 - Private Life in the Castles, the Towns, and the Rural Districts, Part 3 — 22:16
9. 08 - Private Life in the Castles, the Towns, and the Rural Districts, Part 4 — 15:16
10. 09 - Food and Cookery, Part 1 — 27:31
11. 10 - Food and Cookery, Part 2 — 30:16
12. 11 - Food and Cookery, Part 3 — 21:10
13. 12 - Food and Cookery, Part 4 — 25:19
14. 13 - Food and Cookery, Part 5 — 31:43
15. 14 - Food and Cookery, Part 6 — 16:46
16. 15 - Hunting, Part 1 — 29:10
17. 16 - Hunting, Part 2 — 33:46
18. 17 - Games and Pastimes, Part 1 — 30:15
19. 18 - Games and Pastimes, Part 2 — 29:54
20. 19 - Commerce — 38:08
21. 20 - Guilds and Trade Corporations — 40:36
22. 21 - Taxes, Money, and Finance, Part 1 — 46:25
23. 22 - Taxes, Money, and Finance, Part 2 — 41:51
24. 23 - Law and the Administration of Justice, Part 1 — 38:33

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