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Etudes Sur L'Adminstration De Rome Au Moyen Age
Text: French
190 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1974
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July 10, 2014
This is probably the first academic book that I've read entirely in French. Hooray!
To be entirely honest, this book will probably be very dry for most people who are not very big fans of 12th century Rome. It is essentially a close study of how the government worked during the Middle Ages, with particular attention to the period c. 1050-1250. There's even a list in the back of people who were notaries, scribes, judges, all that sort of thing - again, something that will be a remarkably dry list for some people, a really exciting one for others. I thought it was really cool, though - it's so rare that we can actually catch a glimpse of medieval people, regular people who worked in the city and were not particularly famous. It is great to know, for example, that there was a Roman senator c. 1150 who was essentially named Happy Gregory. It's the sort of book that requires a degree of imagination, but if you provide that it can be really wonderful.
(PS: Rome is great, there will be lots of books about Rome reviewed here over the next few months.)
To be entirely honest, this book will probably be very dry for most people who are not very big fans of 12th century Rome. It is essentially a close study of how the government worked during the Middle Ages, with particular attention to the period c. 1050-1250. There's even a list in the back of people who were notaries, scribes, judges, all that sort of thing - again, something that will be a remarkably dry list for some people, a really exciting one for others. I thought it was really cool, though - it's so rare that we can actually catch a glimpse of medieval people, regular people who worked in the city and were not particularly famous. It is great to know, for example, that there was a Roman senator c. 1150 who was essentially named Happy Gregory. It's the sort of book that requires a degree of imagination, but if you provide that it can be really wonderful.
(PS: Rome is great, there will be lots of books about Rome reviewed here over the next few months.)
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