The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England

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Summary: destroys stereotypes of medieval peasants
Review: This book does a great job of getting straight to the peasants themselves and depicting their lives as much as possible instead of lumping them together as all equally miserable, brutish, callous, etc.

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Summary: Pretty decent for what it is.
Review: While, admitedly, I don't think I'd read this book without prompting, (I'm having to read it for a class), it is actually rather fascinating. The way in which the author uses coroner's reports to support her claims is particularly interesting, in a morbid sort of way.