is about archaeological discoveries from the Middle Ages. The author, Frances Gies, uses details and descriptions to help her auidence visualize how people worked and lived seven hundred years ago. The village is a very small town, or as we would say, a metropolitan suburb. The population consisted of farmers rather than merchants or craftsmen. Still, socially, economically, and politically, it was a community. Together the people formed an integrated whole for agricultural production. There they lived, labored, socialized, loved, married, si ....