MEDIEVAL PEOPLE
Written by Eileen Power, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Published by Folio Society
in 1999
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MEDIEVAL PEOPLE
Written by Eileen Power, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.
Stock no. 1830755
2001.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Introduced by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. The text of this edition follows that of the tenth edition. Cream boards with gilt vignettes. Colour illustrations. xxvii and 253 pages including index. Third printing. Light fading to spine else a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which has some light scuffing.
MEDIEVAL PEOPLE
Written by Eileen Power, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.
Stock no. 1830550
2000.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition.
Introduced by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. The text of this edition follows that of the tenth edition. Cream boards with gilt vignettes. Colour illustrations. xxvii and 253 pages including index. Second printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is very lightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Author's Preface
- Preface to the Tenth Edition
- I The Precursors
- II The Peasant Bodo
- Life on a Country Estate in the Time of Charlemagne
- III Marco Polo
- A Venetian Traveller of the Thirteenth Century
- IV Madame Eglentyne
- Chaucer's Prioress in Real Life
- V The Menagier's Wife
- A Paris Housewife in the Fourteenth Century
- VI Thomas Betson
- A Merchant of the Staple in the Fifteenth Century
- VII Thomas Paycocke of Coggeshall
- An Essex Clothier in the Days of Henry VII
- Notes and Sources
- Index