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Presents the economic and social life of a medieval town by chronicling a week's activities in the trading center of Stanford (now Stamford), England, in 1274.
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Presents the economic and social life of a medieval town by chronicling a week's activities in the trading center of Stanford (now Stamford), England, in 1274.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 5 Up-- With fascinating detail and some informational flashbacks and asides, Sancha describes the crafts and trade in medieval England. She focuses on a town and the activities of several of its townsfolk, their families, and their friends over the course of a week in August, 1274. Through the dyer, the wool merchant, and a cloth merchant and finisher, Sancha describes the methods of spinning, weaving and finishing cloth, and tanning leather, along with trade routes and customs, social activities, religious life, education, and more. The recurring appearances of Walter Dragun, the town's unpopular seneschal, or overseer, and his bailiff point out the injustice of life before modern laws and courts, and the powerlessness of the common people. A full page on names describes the language of early England and gives the meaning and origins of specific placenames and surnames found in the text. The overall effect is similar to Joe Lasker's Merry Ever After (Penguin, 1978); both use semi-fictional characters to describe lifestyles, methods, and customs of a time and place. Sancha's book, however, uses a much smaller typeface to pack in a larger quantity of information. Unfortunately, Sancha's indistinct black-and-white illustrations do not have the clarity or attractiveness of those in Lasker's book. They are busily detailed and teeming with people and activities, but (with the exception of two maps and an illustration of a tanner's yard) lack labels or captions. There are four well-illustrated pages on trade fairs and markets in G. Caselli's The Middle Ages (Bedrick, 1988) and several short sections on crafts and trade in Trevor Cairns' The Middle Ages (Lerner, 1974), but both deal more in generalities than the range and depth of specific facts in Walter Dragun's Town.--Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
In her companion volume to 'The Luttrell Village' (Crowell), Sancha draws from ancient documents, sculpture at Lincoln Cathedral, and the archaeology of the present-day town of Stamford to depict life in an important center of trade and industry in the thirteenth century. Review, p. 795. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Here, the life of the English town of Stanford (now Stamford) in 1274 is vividly re-created. After studying the faces in stone on nearby Lincoln Cathedral and reading the Hundred Rolls (records of complaints of wrongdoing compiled during the reign of Edward I) and other sources, Sancha imagines in detail the busy, layered life of the town. The making of fine wool cloth, traded to merchants from as far away as Florence, is paramount among the many crafts described; the tanner's art and the work of the smithy are also included, among others. Meanwhile. the unjust seneschal Walter Dragun controls citizens and merchants: his men's arbitrary arrests and extortion of unfair fines and fees represent the darker side of this prosperous community. An epilogue reveals that these bad guys actually got their comeuppance after Edward's investigations. Sancha's lively drawings of citizens busy with their crafts, school, worship, or trade are crammed with a wealth of well-researched details that are fun to explore. A fine companion to the author's The Luttrell Village (1983). Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 5 Up-- With fascinating detail and some informational flashbacks and asides, Sancha describes the crafts and trade in medieval England. She focuses on a town and the activities of several of its townsfolk, their families, and their friends over the course of a week in August, 1274. Through the dyer, the wool merchant, and a cloth merchant and finisher, Sancha describes the methods of spinning, weaving and finishing cloth, and tanning leather, along with trade routes and customs, social activities, religious life, education, and more. The recurring appearances of Walter Dragun, the town's unpopular seneschal, or overseer, and his bailiff point out the injustice of life before modern laws and courts, and the powerlessness of the common people. A full page on names describes the language of early England and gives the meaning and origins of specific placenames and surnames found in the text. The overall effect is similar to Joe Lasker's Merry Ever After (Penguin, 1978); both use semi-fictional characters to describe lifestyles, methods, and customs of a time and place. Sancha's book, however, uses a much smaller typeface to pack in a larger quantity of information. Unfortunately, Sancha's indistinct black-and-white illustrations do not have the clarity or attractiveness of those in Lasker's book. They are busily detailed and teeming with people and activities, but (with the exception of two maps and an illustration of a tanner's yard) lack labels or captions. There are four well-illustrated pages on trade fairs and markets in G. Caselli's The Middle Ages (Bedrick, 1988) and several short sections on crafts and trade in Trevor Cairns' The Middle Ages (Lerner, 1974), but both deal more in generalities than the range and depth of specific facts in Walter Dragun's Town.--Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
In her companion volume to 'The Luttrell Village' (Crowell), Sancha draws from ancient documents, sculpture at Lincoln Cathedral, and the archaeology of the present-day town of Stamford to depict life in an important center of trade and industry in the thirteenth century. Review, p. 795. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Here, the life of the English town of Stanford (now Stamford) in 1274 is vividly re-created. After studying the faces in stone on nearby Lincoln Cathedral and reading the Hundred Rolls (records of complaints of wrongdoing compiled during the reign of Edward I) and other sources, Sancha imagines in detail the busy, layered life of the town. The making of fine wool cloth, traded to merchants from as far away as Florence, is paramount among the many crafts described; the tanner's art and the work of the smithy are also included, among others. Meanwhile. the unjust seneschal Walter Dragun controls citizens and merchants: his men's arbitrary arrests and extortion of unfair fines and fees represent the darker side of this prosperous community. An epilogue reveals that these bad guys actually got their comeuppance after Edward's investigations. Sancha's lively drawings of citizens busy with their crafts, school, worship, or trade are crammed with a wealth of well-researched details that are fun to explore. A fine companion to the author's The Luttrell Village (1983). Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.