Jan-Maat’s Reviews > A Fool and His Money: Life in a Partitioned Town in Fourteenth-Century France > Status Update
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"in the late 1360s taxes soared...Marques borrowed to pay them, and then could not pay the debts back, at which his creditors would ask the parish priest to excommunicate him. This was a fairly routine rebuke (one neighbour was excommunicated over a shipment of faulty nails)..."
— Mar 04, 2013 04:21AM
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"The naves were cluttered with chests, bundles of clothes and flitches of bacon, stowed there for safety in case the English showed up."
— Mar 05, 2013 12:37AM
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"A proper illness confined you to bed, like the paupers in the peace hospital, where you were bled and fed on broth until eventually, almost inevitably, you died."
— Mar 04, 2013 06:45AM
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"Caissac spoke with such authority that the string of Bourg witnesses behind him were content to say they agreed with him, and leave it at that. Presented with this damning evidence, the City lawyers were reduced to scratching fierce remarks in the margins when the record was written up later."
— Mar 04, 2013 03:04AM