A FOOL AND HIS MONEY : Life in a Partitioned Town in Fourteenth-Century France
by Ann Wroe
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New York, NY: Hill & Wang/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/New. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Story of the strange mid-14th century case of Peyre Marques, a merchant of the French medieval town of Rodez, and a pot of gold. In 1370, city workmen find the pot of gold coins in question in a drain, precipitating a court battle over ownership between a befuddled Marques and his son-in-law. Historian Ann Wroe recreates the case through court registers & city archives. Now, Rodez was a town torn in half --- half governed by a bishop loyal to France, and the other by Count Rodez loyal to England. Through this dispute over a pitcher of gold, a portrait of daily life during the Hundred Years War (1339-1453) emerges to life. An exciting instance of historical scholarship.
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- Title
- A FOOL AND HIS MONEY : Life in a Partitioned Town in Fourteenth-Century France
- Author
- Ann Wroe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition, First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0809045958
- ISBN 13
- 9780809045952
- Publisher
- Hill & Wang/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- History/France/Hundred Years' War/Daily Life
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