Town: A City-Dwellers Look at 13th to 15th Century Europe
Enjoy a trip to a world where powerful priests can charge sinners with the death penalty¸ and where knights gather for illegal combat sports... where thieves can thumb their nose at the authorities from within the walls of a church¸ and where a foraging band of the king's own soldiers is more dangerous than a pack of brigand outlaws. In the midst of all this¸ ordinary people survived to work the land¸ weave the cloth¸ and pray for safety from famine and plague. The real Middle Ages were as brutish and wild as any fantasy world. Town: A City-Dweller's Look at 13th to 15th Century Europe is a sourcebook examining medieval life from the perspective of the guild and merchant-house¸ through the lives of craftsmen¸ traders¸ students¸ thieves and mercenaries - dwellers in medieval europe's cities and towns. It's a friendly primer on the basics of medieval life¸ and a treasury of hard-to-find details for the Game Master or enthusiast. Features in Town include appendices exploring specific historical examples (the cities of Paris¸ Venice and York) to provide added perspective on - and some telling exceptions to - to the ideas explored in the main text. Town is by Lisa J. Steele¸ author of Medieval France from White Rose Publishing¸ GURPS Cops and GURPS Mysteries from Steve Jackson Games¸ and Town's best-selling companion volume: Fief: A Look at Medieval Society from its Lower Rungs. Produced and indexed by S. John Ross¸ creator of the All-Systems Library and of works ranging from Risus to the Star Trek Narrator's Toolkit to GURPS Russia.