A Fool and His Money: Life in a Partitioned Town in Fourteenth-Century France
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ISBN: 0809045958 / Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub, October 1995
Traces the political and social divisions in a medieval French town during the Hundred Years War through the story of a pot of gold found in a drain--a mystery umearthed by the author in the city archives
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When Gerald Canac found a pot of gold in a drainpipe and his father-in-law thinks he stole it, the controversy grows to engulf the whole small town of Rodez, now in southwest France, but at the time divided physically and legally between loyalty to the King of France and to the King of England, who were furiously pursuing the Hundred Years War. Medieval historian Wroe draws from primary documents from the town's archive, written in Latin or the Occitan dialect of the region. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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