Medieval People

by Eileen Power

I am sure that she never intended these passages to be perpetuated in her Medieval People and I have therefore done what I could to replace them with a reconstructed version of her first draft. The reconstruction had to be done from somewhat disjointed notes and cannot therefore be word-faithful. The readers must therefore bear in mind that the first two and the last page of the essay are mere approximations to what Eileen Power in fact wrote.

April, 1963

M.M. POSTAN

Peterhouse, Cambridge.

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Contents

[I.]		[THE PRECURSORS]
[II.]		[BODO, A FRANKISH PEASANT IN THE TIME OF CHARLEMAGNE]
[III.]		[MARCO POLO, A VENETIAN TRAVELLER OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY]
[IV.]		[MADAME EGLENTYNE, CHAUCER'S PRIORESS IN REAL LIFE]
[V.]		[THE MÉNAGIER'S WIFE, A PARIS HOUSEWIFE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY]
[VI.]		[THOMAS BETSON, A MERCHANT OF THE STAPLE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY]
[VII.]		[THOMAS PAYCOCKE OF COGGESHALL, AN ESSEX CLOTHIER IN THE DAYS OF HENRY VII]
		[NOTES AND SOURCES]
		[NOTES ON ILLUSTRATIONS]
		[INDEX]

[I.]		[THE PRECURSORS]
[II.]		[BODO, A FRANKISH PEASANT IN THE TIME OF CHARLEMAGNE]
[III.]		[MARCO POLO, A VENETIAN TRAVELLER OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY]
[IV.]		[MADAME EGLENTYNE, CHAUCER'S PRIORESS IN REAL LIFE]
[V.]		[THE MÉNAGIER'S WIFE, A PARIS HOUSEWIFE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY]
[VI.]		[THOMAS BETSON, A MERCHANT OF THE STAPLE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY]
[VII.]		[THOMAS PAYCOCKE OF COGGESHALL, AN ESSEX CLOTHIER IN THE DAYS OF HENRY VII]
		[NOTES AND SOURCES]
		[NOTES ON ILLUSTRATIONS]
		[INDEX]

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