Medieval Life describes in meticulous yet vivid detail, the manners, customs and dress during the Middle Ages and Renaissance period. Wide ranging in its coverage, it provides a complete picture of what it must have been like to be alive at this momentous point in history. Wonderfully illustrated, it is a veritable treasure-trove of information about virtually every aspect of existence - commerce and finance, domestic lives and pastimes, justice and punishments, food and hunting, cultural customs and dress, and much more. An extraordinary account of bygone days, which appeals both as a charming curiosity and a rich source of information, Medieval Life is a triumph of scholarship and the author's tour de force. Chapters include: • Condition of Persons and Land • Privileges and Rights • Private Life in the Castles, the Towns, and the Rural Districts • Food and Cookery • Hunting • Games and Pastimes • Commerce • Guilds and Trade Corporations • Taxes, Money, and Finance • Law and the Administration of Justice • Secret Tribunals • Punishments • Gipsies, Tramps, Beggars, and Cours des Miracles • Ceremonials • Costumes
Originally published in 1878, this compilation of text and more than 400 illustrations assembled by the 19th-century bibliophile, librarian and amateur historian Paul Lacroix unfolds an unusual panorama of the life of the period, putting the reader into closer touch with the scholars and surgeons, the magicians, rulers and actors who peopled these centuries. It was an age of slowly widening horizons for scientists and philosophers, yet an age of stubborn superstition, when sorcerers flourished in pacts with demons and scholars pursued their studies alert to accusations of influence by evil spirits. Paul Lacroix was curator of the Imperial Library of the Paris Arsenal. Born in 1806, he was well known during his lifetime as the author of many popular historical works.
Originally published in 1878, this compilation of text and more than 400 illustrations assembled by the 19th-century bibliophile, librarian and amateur historian Paul Lacroix unfolds a living image of the past to let the reader glimpse the celebrated and the unknown - foot soldiers, explorers, crusaders, noble ladies and impenitent sinners - who peopled an era when the military placed itself at the service of the Church in its task of creating a new society and new institutions. Paul Lacroix was curator of the Imperial Library of the Paris Arsenal. Born in 1806, he was well known during his lifetime as the author of many popular historical works.
Lacroix was a French author and journalist best known under his pseudonym of P. L. Jacob, bibliophile, or Bibliophile Jacob. He was an extremely prolific and varied writer and in 1885 he was appointed librarian of the Arsenal Library, Paris.
The Man Who Married a Mermaid (1949) tells the picaresque story of a sailor, PEre Olifus, who first marries a mermaid, then embarks upon a series of voyages to a semi-mythical Far East where he enjoys various economic opportunities, but remains plagued by the vengeful astral form of the mermaid wife he left behind. Master storyteller Alexandre Dumas teamed up with Paul Lacroix intending to produce a series of magical tales, of which this wry, sarcastic fable of supernaturally-punished infidelity was the first. When the project failed, Lacroix expanded the story into a novella, which remains entertaining as well as intriguing, and deserves to be reckoned one of the flawed classics of its genre.
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