Year of manufacture: 2004
Author: Paul Lacroix
Genre: History
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 220
English language

"The several successive editions of "The Arts of the Middle Ages and Period of the Renaissance" sufficiently testify to its appreciation by the public. The object of that work was to introduce the reader to a branch of learning to which access had hitherto appeared only permitted to the scientific. That attempt, which was a bold one, succeeded too well not to induce us to push our researches further. In fact, art alone cannot acquaint us entirely with an epoch...."

Condition of Persons and Lands
Privileges and Rights (Feudal and Municipal)
Private Life in the Castles, the Towns, and the Rural Districts
Food and Cookery
Hunting
Games and Pastimes
Commerce
Guilds and Trade Corporations
Taxes, Money, and Finance
Law and the Administration of Justice
Secret Tribunals
Punishments
Jews
Gipsies, Tramps, Beggars, and Cours des Miracles
Ceremonials
Costumes

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