Paris in the Middle Ages

by Simone Roux

Book Overview

Paris in the Middle Ages Simone Roux. Translated by Jo Ann McNamara "One feels the city in constant motion, going from funeral to carnival, wading along streets drenched with the blood of animals flayed by butchers, applauding jongleurs and their monkeys, even watching the legal trials of beasts condemned to death."--Le Nouvel Observateur, in a review of the French edition Paris in the Middle Ages was home to royalty, mountebanks, Knights Templar,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812241592
• ISBN13: 9780812241594
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"