Frances Gies (June 10, 1915 – December 18, 2013) and Joseph Gies (October 8, 1916 – April 13, 2006) were historians and writers who collaborated on a number of books about the

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, and also wrote individual works. They were husband and wife. Joseph Gies graduated from the

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in 1939.

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Collaborations

* (1969) ''Life in a Medieval City'', * (1972) ''Merchants and Moneymen: The Commercial Revolution, 1000-1500'' * (1974) ''Life in a Medieval Castle'' Crowell, * (1979) ''Life in a Medieval Castle'' * (1983) ''Leonard Of Pisa And The New Mathematics Of The Middle Ages'' * (1987) ''Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages'' * (1990) ''Life in a Medieval Village'' * (1994) ''Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel : Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages'' HarperCollins * (1999) ''A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England'' New York: HarperCollins * (2005) ''Daily Life in Medieval Times'', UK: Grange Books, 2005 (Combining ''Medieval City'', ''Medieval Castle'', ''Medieval Village'')

Frances Gies

* (1978) ''Women in the Middle Ages'' HarperCollins * (1981) ''Joan of Arc: The Legend and the Reality'' HarperCollins * (1984) ''The Knight in History'' HarperCollins Briefly reviewed in ''

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'' (14 January 1985) : 119.

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