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Eileen Power.
Medieval People.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1951 reprint (previously issued 1937; uses the original 1924 text, so does not include the introductory chapter added to later editions).
Series: Pelican Books, no. A19.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Wyman & Sons, Reading.
Size: 110×180×12mm.
Page count: text 224pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the covers on this copy are rather grubby, some creases & mild stains, a little wear on the edges with the corners starting to fray; spine wrinkled and a bit creased; pages yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £3.00
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[Dover paperback in print at $9.95]
Weight without packaging: 140g.

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Contents:
Bodo, Frankish peasant in the time of Charlemagne;
Marco Polo, Venetian traveller of the 13th c.;
Madame Eglentyne, Chaucer’s Prioress in real life;
The Ménagier’s wife, a Paris housewife in the 14th c.;
Thomas Betson, merchant of the Staple in the 15th c.;
Thomas Paycocke of Coggeshall, Essex clothier in the days of Henry VII.

Illustrations: 8 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 1

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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