A fool and his money
Subtitle: life in a partitioned town in fourteenth-century France
By: Ann Wroe.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Treasure-trove -- Political aspects -- France -- Rodez.; City and town life -- France -- Rodez -- History -- To 1500.; Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453.; Rodez (France) -- History.
Description: We are in Rodez, a town in southwestern France, during the Hundred Years War. A pot of gold is found in a drain. Does it belong to the man who claims it or to his befuddled father-in-law? In a Fool and His Money, Ann Wroe unravels the mystery of the gold coins and reveals the rich and perplexing culture of a medieval city divided - as so many communities are today - into rival political units.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-243).