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Medieval People
Medieval People
Author: Eileen Power
Classic study by a prominent medieval scholar vividly recreates the lives of six ordinary people who lived between the ninth and sixteenth centuries: a peasant on a country estate in Charlemagne’s time, a Venetian traveler of the 13th century; a prioress and a middle-class Parisian housewife of the 14th century; and a merchant and a cloth ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780486414355
ISBN-10: 0486414353
Publication Date: 9/18/2000
Pages: 210
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Publisher: Dover Publications
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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This book was written more than 90 years ago but is still relevant. My favorite chapter was the one on Marco Polo, because his life was so remarkable. The other chapters are also worthwhile. They have to do with ordinary people of several hundred years ago who happened to leave some record of military service or household journals (that is, accounting) or in a census.


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