Medieval PeopleBarnes & Noble, 1963 - 210 pages "An account of six persons during the Middle Ages: a Frankish peasant; Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler; Madame Eglentyne, prioress of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; a middle-class Parisian housewife; two English merchants, one engaged in the wool trade and the other an Essex clothier ... A hitherto unpublished essay ... has been added ... [which] describes the barbarian conquest of Rome"--Page 4 of cover. |
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CHARLEMAGNE | 18 |
MARCO POLO A VENETIAN TRAVELLER OF | 39 |
MADAME EGLENTYNE CHAUCERS PRIORESS | 73 |
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