Medieval People

6 chapters. Drawn on the account of books, records, letters and diaries and wills to make the life of those times as concrete and comprehensible as our own. A Frankish peasant in the ninth century, Marco Polo the Venetian traveler, Madame Eglentyne, the Prioress of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a young wife of a Parisian gougeois, Thomas Betson a wool trader, and Thomas Peycocke of Coggeshall an Essex clothier