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A Fool And His Money: Life in a Partitioned Medieval Town

A Fool And His Money: Life in a Partitioned Medieval Town

by Ann Wroe (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

    $3.47

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    Hardcover 1995

    $3.47
Synopsis

Few books have captured the atmosphere of daily medieval life as well or as movingly as "A Fool and his Money". Rodez, in southern France, was divided for centuries by a fued between two masters. This partitioned town thus acquired two distinct cultures. The story focuses on the strange case of Peyre Marques, a merchant who forgets where he has buried his gold. To read "A Fool and his Money" is like opening a shutter on to a sunlit medieval street teeming with characters, talk and noise all coloured with the vibrancy of truth.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 May 1996
ISBN 10: 0099581817
ISBN 13: 9780099581819
Book Overview: Popular history at the highest level' Independent

Media Reviews
Popular history at the highest level.
-- Independent
Wroe is an excellent historian and an engaging writer with a beady eye for detail and an attractive turn of phrase. Best of all, she conveys a true feeling for the recreation of period and persons and place.
-- Daily Telegraph
History lives best when it is loved, and nobody who reads this book can doubt the author's love of her subject.
-- Sunday Telegraph
Author Bio
Ann Wroe is the American editor of The Economist, and was formerly its literary editor. Her last book, A Fool and His Money was highly praised by the critics.