Lewis Francis Salzman. Life of England in the Middle Ages. / Translation from English Rassadina S. A. - St. Petersburg: Eurasia, 2014. - 320 pp. Before you is a book about everyday life in medieval England, a country that has always occupied a special place among the states of Western Europe. L.F. Salzman, a famous medievalist historian, wrote about the most significant problems of medieval everyday life - domestic life, crime and punishment, wars, travel, illnesses, habits and customs, gastronomic preferences, architecture and sciences. An excellent expert on the Middle Ages, L.F. Salzman created a broad and fascinating canvas of the life of a medieval Englishman, showing how the political, economic and cultural atmosphere that surrounded him changed from century to century. What makes the book especially lively and fascinating is the author’s ability to present the material as if he were writing a novel rather than a historical study. Thanks to the exceptional gift of storytelling inherent in the English historian, the characters of that era appear as if alive on the pages of his book - kings, knights, townspeople and peasants, travelers and monks, guards and robbers. The author presents a whole palette of characters of the medieval era in England - from Richard the Lionheart to Robin Hood - exploring their hopes and aspirations. Scientific editor: Ph.D. n. Karachinsky A. Yu.