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English Wayfaring Life in the
Middle Ages (XIVth Century)
BY J. J. JUSSERAND.
Translated by Lucy A. Toulmin Smith.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"The book is a translation and an amplification of one of those enchanting volumes which only Frenchmen have the gift of writing, ... a pleasure to handle, a joy to read, and bearing with it, when one gets to the end of it, a conviction that one has become a much more learned man than one was a week ago, for that somehow one has absorbed a great deal that the outer world knows little about. Pray do not order this volume at the library. Buy it if you are wise, and keep it as a joy for ever."—Dr. Augustus Jessopp in the Nineteenth Century.
"A mine of information regarding the roads, the travelling, and the travellers of the fourteenth century.... The book is crammed with curious information"—Spectator.