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17
VALUE OF
20 sous: Perroy, “Wage Labour,” 45, n. 1; Jusserand, 46–47, 51.

18
“OF THE GOOD TOWNS
”: Georges Chastellain, q. Cartellieri, 76.
“EXPOSURE OF THEIR BODIES
”: q. Bloch,
Feudal
, 451.

19
AQUINAS, “COMMON GOOD
”: q. Jarret,
Social
, 18.
“PRINCES ARE INSTITUTED”:
ibid.

20
“NOT ONE OF US
”: Girard de Roussilon, q. Oakeshott, 53.

21
GARIN LI LOHERAINS
: q. Gautier (Eng. ed.), 281.

22
BERTRAND DE BORN
: q. Bloch,
Feudal
, 293.
DANTE PUT HIM IN HELL:
Inferno
, XXVIII.

23
“NOT PROPER FOR A NOBLE
”: Lewis, 175, 180.
SONS OF NOBLES AS MERCHANTS:
Cazelles,
Société politique
, 290.

24
“SHALL HAVE NO CAUSE
”: Bonet, 131.

25
KNIGHT WITH
32
COATS-OF-ARMS
: He was Jacques de Lalaing; Cartellieri, 75.

26
DURATION OF NOBLE FAMILIES
: Lewis, 176–77.

27
DISAPPEARANCE RATE OF
50
PERCENT
: Perroy, “Social Mobility.”
CLUSEL AND GUICHARD VERT
: ibid.

28
SUMPTUARY LAWS
: Baldwin, passim.

29
IN
F
LORENCE
: Origo, 290, 298, 300–301.
IN FRANCE
: Franklin,
Rues et cris
, 35–36.

30
KNIGHTON
: q. Baldwin, 69.

31
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS
: q. Shears in Prestage, 57.
UNCOUTH
G
ERMANS
: Bonet, 204.
“MOST CHIVALROUS SOJOURN
”: q. Michelet, III, 255.
DON PERO NIÑO
: q. Díaz de Gómez (Evans trans.), 133.

32
FRENCH LANGUAGE, MARCO POLO, ST. FRANCIS, VENETIAN SCHOLAR:
Artz, 350; Cheyney, 248–49.

33
LONDON BRIDGE
: Jusserand, 23–24. F
RENCH DOLLS
: Bradley, 136.

34
FRENCH IVORIES
: E. Mâle,
Art et artistes du moyen age
, Paris, 1927, 313–14.

35
“YOU PARIS MASTERS
”: q. E. R. Chamberlin,
Life in Medieval France
, London, 1967, 118.
“TWO LIGHTS OF THE WORLD
”: q. Coville, 394.

36
CEREMONY OF THE
rissoles:
Dufour, 62–64; Lelong, 181.

Chapter 2—Born to Woe: The Century

1
BALTIC SEA
: J. C. Russell,
Fontana
, 24. C
ASPIAN SEA
: Carpentier,
“Autour de la peste noire.”

2
PEOPLE EATING CHILDREN:
Russell, Op. cit.

3
BISHOP DENIED BURIAL:
CMH
, 280.

4
CHILDREN OF PRIESTS
: Flick, 175–76.
AND OTHER DISPENSATIONS
: ibid., 121–22.

5
ALVAR PELAYO
, “I
FOUND BROKERS”:
q. ibid., 180.

6
UNFIT CLERGY, BOY OF SEVEN ET AL
.: ibid., 174.
BISHOP OF
D
URHAM
: Coulton,
Panorama
, 128.

7
HENRY OF
H
EREFORD
: q. Cohn, 133–34.

8
JOHN XXII, GOLD CLOTH AND FURS:
Origo, 8.

9
“RICH, INSOLENT AND RAPACIOUS
”: q. Hay, 277.
CARDINAL’S TEN STABLES:
CMH
, 282.

10
PETRARCH ON “BABYLON OF THE WEST
”: Robinson,
Readings
, I, 502–3.
LATRINES OF THE PAPAL PALACE
: Gagnière.
AMBASSADOR FROM ARAGON:
Origo, 7.

11
ST
. B
RIGITTA, “A FIELD FULL OF PRIDE
”: q. Hay, 277.

12
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY’S COMPLAINT
: q. Cutts, 242–43. M
ATTEO VILLANI
: q. Emerton, 178.

13
14TH CENTURY POEM
: T. Wright,
Political Songs
, I, 264–66.
“DID NOT BEHAVE AS FRIARS OUGHT
”: q. Jusserand, 170.

14
ST
. F
RANCIS AND BREVIARY
: ibid., 166.

15
MONKS LENT MONEY AT INTEREST
: Coulton,
Panorama
, 269.

16
“MUSTARD POTTIS
”: q. Jusserand, 171–72.
BOILING AN EGG
: Ménagier de Paris, 295.

17
FEAST OF FOOLS
: Chambers, 294, 315, 325–27; Gayley, 49–50.

18
“THE THORN FALLS OUT”:
Chron. C6
, I, 317.
WOMAN ACCUSED OF INCEST:
Cohen, 327.

19
PETRARCH, “A HARD AND WEARY JOURNEY”:
Correspondence
, 398.
“TURN THEE AGAIN
”: q. Herlihy,
Med. Culture
, 409.

20
GASCON SEIGNEUR
: He was Amanieu d’Albret VI, q. Boutruche, 177. JOINVILLE
ON THE POOR
: q. Shears in Prestage, 64.

21
ST. AUGUSTINE
: q. Coulton,
Panorama
, 369.
ST. JEROME
: q. Pirenne,
Europe
, 229.

22
“DEVIL ON THE LID
”: q. Pirenne, loc. cit.
DATINI’S MOTTO
: Origo, xiv. P
HILIPPE DE BEAUMANOIR
: q. Mollat & Wolff, 46.

23
Confréries:
Mâle, 167 ff.; M. Mollat,
Vie
, 91–103.

24
JACQUES DE VITRY
: q. Davis, 271, and Evans,
Med. France
, 34.

25
TEMPLARS ACCUSED OF BLACK ARTS
: Jeffry Russell, 195–96, 198.

26
“AND HE WOULD HAVE CONFESSED
”: q.
CMH
, 318–19.

27
MOLAY’S CURSE
: The eyewitness report by Godfrey of Paris is quoted in
Nouv. biog. générale
, ed. Hoefer, Paris, 1861. See also Marcel Lobet,
Histoire des Templiers
, Liège, 1944, 225; M. Reynouard,
Procès et condamnation des Templiers
, Paris, 1805, 113.

28
“BAD LAME QUEEN
”: Coville, 399.
PHILIP VI
and
THE BEATIFIC VISION
: Lea, III, 590, 593;
Cath. Encyc
, II, 430; Coville, 14.

29
THREAT TO BURN THE POPE
: reported by Giovanni Villani, q. J. B. Christophe,
Histoire de la Papauté
, Paris, 1853, II, 30.

30
PHILIP ARRANGES MARRIAGE OF ENGUERRAND VI:
Duchesne, 262–63.

31
EMPEROR LUDWIG AND DAUGHTER:
Jarrett,
Social
, 58.

Chapter 3—Youth and Chivalry

1
ENGLISH PREACHER ON MOTHER AND CHILD:
q. Owst, 34–35.

2
KNITTING ON FOUR NEEDLES
: White, “Technology Assessment” with illus.
Ancren Riivle:
q. McLaughlin, 153, n. 90.

3
INFANT MORTALITY ESTIMATED
: McLaughlin, III.

4
PHILIP OF NOVARA:
“Des iiii tenz d’aage d’ome”
[The four ages of man] in Langlois, II, 210–11.

5
ADVICE ON ETIQUETTE
: Ménagier, 10, 14–17, 20, 24, 47, 204, 209, 215, 219; T. Wright,
Manners
, 275; Christine de Pisan,
Livre des trois vertus
, q. Power, 318; Fra Benvenisco da Ripa, Z
inquanta cortesi da Tavola
[Fifty courtesies at the table], q. Aries, 381. On absence of advice on child-rearing, see Power, 420.

6
BARTHOLOMEW OF ENGLAND
and
ALDOBRANDINO OF SIENA:
q. McLaughlin,
115, 1
37, 144, n. 31.

7
HALF THE POPULATION UNDER
21: J. C. Russell,
Fontana
, 31.

8
BOCCACCIO, “BIRDS, WILD BEASTS”:
Questioni d’Amore
, chap. 5, q.
Putnam’s Reader
, 188.

9
CHRONICLER’S COMPLAINT OF SHORT TUNICS
: Jean de Venette, q. Luce,
Jacquerie
, 37.

10
MARCH, “IN WHICH THE WORLD BEGAN
”: Nun’s Priest’s Tale.

11
A SCHOLAR OF OXFORD
: Thorndike, III, 143.
MENTAL DEPRESSION AN ILLNESS
: ibid., 251.
TRIANGULATION BY A MONK
: Davis, 338.
WINDMILLS MUST PAY TITHES
: White,
Med. Tech.
, 89.

12
TRAVEL—DISTANCES AND CONDITIONS
: Boyer; Jusserand, 123; Hay, 363; d’Haucourt, 17; Cipolla, 534; Boissonade, 287; T. Wright,
Manners
.

13
VENICE-TO-BRUGES POSTAL SERVICE
: Origo, 99.

14
SIR HERVÉ DE LÉON
: Coulton,
Panorama
, 325.
PILGRIMS’ “HERTES BEGIN TO FAYLE
”: ibid.

15
DESCHAMPS ON
G
ERMAN INNS
: q. Coopland in notes to Mézières, I, 36.
KNEW THE WORLD WAS ROUND
: Bartholomew of England,
Image du Monde
and others in Langlois,
Connaissance
.

16
AS A FLY ON AN APPLE:
Image
, q. ibid., 78.
DISTANCE FROM THE STARS:
ibid., 79.

17
UNIVERSE IN GOD’S ARMS
: Mâle, 298.
MOON, ECLIPSE, RAIN, TIME BETWEEN THUNDER AND LIGHTNING:
Image du Monde
, 97–100.
VIEWS OF INDIA, PERSIA
: ibid., 83–84.

18
GARDEN OF EDEN
: Howard Patch,
The Other World
, Harvard University Press, 1950.

19
“THEY ARE AS GOD PLEASES
”: ibid., 93.

20
BOOK OF SIDRACH
: Langlois,
Connaissance
, 224 ff.

21
DANTE, CHANTED BY BLACKSMITHS, AND PUBLIC LECTURES ON:
Cheyney,
260
.

22
ITALIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
: Bandini of Arezzo,
Fons memorabilium universi
, q. Thorndike, III, 562.

23
C
ATHERINE’S HUSBAND
: He is named Conrad de Hardeck in L’
Art de vérifier
, 237, and Conrad de Magdebourg by La Chesnaye-Desbois. 62 C
ATHERINE’S CARE FOR SON’S EDUCATION
: BN, ms. fr. 18616.

24
JOHN OF
S
ALISBURY
: q. Coulton,
Panorama, 242
.
JOHN THE BLIND DUG UP SYNAGOGUE
: Jarrett,
Charles IV
, 104, n. 1.
HIS DEATH
: Froissart on Crécy.

25
COST OF HELMET AND WAR-HORSE
: Contamine, 656.

26
ST
. B
ERNARD ON TOURNAMENTS
: Gautier, 272.

27
KEEP HIS TEETH AND NAILS CLEAN
: Painter, 135.
Châtelain de Coucy:
Delbouille, passim.

28
“MELANCHOLY, AMOROUS AND BARBARIC
”: Gaston Paris, q. in Larousse, Gr.
Encyc
, XIII, 34.

29
EDWARD
I
II AND COUNTESS OF
S
ALISBURY:
Chron. Jean le Bel
, 30–34;
Chron. normande
, 54, 59–60; Luce-F, II, 346, and IV, xviii–ix.

30
IDENTITY OF JEAN LE BEL
: Snell, 339; Coville, 413.

31
TEUTONIC KNIGHTS HUNTED PEASANTS FOR SPORT
: Pirenne,
Europe
, II, 110.

Chapter 4—War

1
LONGBOW
: Stein, 66; Lot & Fawtier, 528.

2
Ribauds
(CANNON):
Oman, 211–17;
Chron. Jean de Venette
, 157, n. 45.

3
“OH, THE COWARDLY
E
NGLISH
”: Walsingham, q. KL, III, notes, 491.
FISH DRANK SO MUCH FRENCH BLOOD:
Melsa Chron.
, q. notes to
Chron. Jean de Venette
, 154, n. 27.

4
EDWARD III, “CHARM” AND “PETULANCE”:
CMH
, 438.

5
AQUINAS ON “JUST WAR
”: q. Jarrett,
Social
, 193; Painter, 157.
“RIGHT OF SPOIL
”: Keen,
Laws
, 65, 74–75, 140.

6
MICHELET ON BRITTANY
: from the famous “Tableau de France” in the
Histoire
, II, 7–18.

7
CHARLES DE BLOIS—CHARACTER
: Huizinga,
Waning
, 178.
BAREFOOT IN THE SNOW
: ibid.

8
HURLED
30
HEADS
: Mackinnon, 219; see also Roujoux,
Hist, des rois et des ducs de Bretagne
, 1839, III, 127; A. Clauziou,
Hist, de Bretagne
, 1941, 97–98.

9
QUEEN JEANNE ON
B
RUGES
: q. Mollat & Wolff, 25.

10
MATTHEW OF
W
ESTMINSTER ON WOOL
: q. Thompson, 61. C
OURTRAI, LOSSES MADE UP BY ENNOBLEMENT
: Bloch,
Feudal
, 324–25.

11
ARTEVELDE STRIKES FLEMISH KNIGHT:
Pemoud, 214.

12
ARTEVELDE’S DEATH
: Froissart.
“Il piccolo re”:
q. Tourneur, 467.

13
Double et louche:
III, 250.

14
ADVICE OF PARLIAMENT IN
1344: Barnes, 303.

15
SHIPS FOR EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
: Hewitt,
Organization
, 51, 76; Coopland, in notes to Mézières, I, 59.

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