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Historical A Day in a Medieval City by Chiara Frugoni $37.50 / Univ. of Chicago / 2005 Medieval people were more than just modern people who wore funny clothes and spoke with quaint accents. Sometimes, the sheer “otherness” of the Middle Ages can be shocking. Take, for example, the pigs sacred to St. Anthony who were allowed to run free through the streets of Florence, acting as both a public menace and a garbage-removal system. Chiara Frugoni’s A Day in a Medieval City is a journey through this landscape, complete with religions, saints, politics, art, medicine, livestock, merchants, markets, preachers, and tricksters. A professor emerita of medieval studies at the University of Rome, Frugoni writes with both an encyclopedic knowledge of history and a native’s love of Italy. For those wishing for insight into the medieval world—or who are not afraid to learn the facts about medieval life—this lavishly illustrated volume is not to be missed. — Ken Mondschein

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