This book will allow you to look at the world through the eyes of someone living in the Middle Ages, and discover for yourself a radically new perception of life, God, war, and time. The story is told in simple and understandable language. This is not the linear historical narrative to which we have become accustomed; instead, it provides the reader with an opportunity to look at the era through different lenses and to see how simple daily routines can have a bearing on history.

The book has been split into several chapters, each of which briefly describes one aspect or another of life in the Middle Ages, including:

• family, relatives, getting married;
• daily routines, perception of time, work;
• relationship with the authorities, classes in society;
• laws and the court system;
• fighting wars, reasons for wars;
• courtly love;
• chivalry;
• differences between urban and rural life, city life, perception of cities;
• religion, attitude to God and heresy;