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

by Ann Wroe (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.47

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.47

  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.