Bread of Dreams
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: September 1996
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780745618364
Subjects: Customs; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Poverty; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Europe
First sentence: 'One was really tired of being in the world,' noted a French rural curate in his diary during the seventeenth century, interpreting the desperation of the most wretched parishioners who died of hunger in his village.