Traces the history of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages which followed through a description of common objects, tools, clothes, dwellings, food, and day-to-day activities of the people in both the cities and in the country.
Presents, in text and illustrations, a range of people whose way of life reveals various aspects of the society developing in Europe and America from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Describes a year in the life of the monks living in the great monastery of Cluny in medieval France, as seen through the eyes of a young boy who has just joined the monastic order.
Depicts life in medieval Europe while describing a pilgrimage from Ireland across France around 600 A.D., in which travelers from a monastery follow in the footsteps of the saintly monk Columbanus and hear about his deeds.