{"id":253,"date":"2010-04-24T13:09:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T19:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/?p=253"},"modified":"2010-04-24T13:09:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T19:09:20","slug":"audiobook-complete-manners-customs-and-dress-during-the-middle-ages-and-during-the-renaissance-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/2010\/04\/audiobook-complete-manners-customs-and-dress-during-the-middle-ages-and-during-the-renaissance-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiobook Complete: Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period<br \/>\nAuthor: Paul Lacroix (1806-1884)<br \/>\nSource: Librivox<br \/>\nURL: <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/manners-customs-and-dress-during-the-middle-ages-and-during-the-renaissance-period-by-paul-lacroix\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/librivox.org\/manners-customs-and-dress-during-the-middle-ages-and-during-the-renaissance-period-by-paul-lacroix\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an entertaining and enjoyable book, as long as you don&#8217;t take it too seriously as an authoritative resource.\u00a0 In the areas where I have detailed knowledge, there isn&#8217;t much that I can point at and say definitively the author is wrong, but there is a lot that isn&#8217;t exactly right either.\u00a0 The primary problem is that the author provides an anecdote about a topic or behavior at a certain time and place, then extends that by implication further than he should.\u00a0 That makes this work less useful as a resource, but it is still interesting and enjoyable, and he does mention references for many anecdotes that could be further researched if one were interested.<\/p>\n<p>The book is read by several different readers.\u00a0 Most are quite good, a few are not up to the quality of the others, but are still understandable.\u00a0 There is an e-text version available from Project Gutenberg (follow the link above) that includes the original woodcuts.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this book, and may listen to select chapters again, as a starting point to get a little context before starting serious research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period Author: Paul Lacroix (1806-1884) Source: Librivox URL: http:\/\/librivox.org\/manners-customs-and-dress-during-the-middle-ages-and-during-the-renaissance-period-by-paul-lacroix\/ This is an entertaining and enjoyable book, as long as you don&#8217;t take it too seriously as an authoritative resource.\u00a0 In the areas where I have detailed knowledge, there isn&#8217;t much that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}