Cities of the Flesh
A dreadful pageant haunting novelist-historian Zoe Oldenbourg (1916–2002) began on a hot, still day in 1209, when a French army took Béziers, bastion of one of history's most romantic territories. The region covered all of present S. France. Its palaces were rich in art, dominated by codes of...
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A dreadful pageant haunting novelist-historian Zoe Oldenbourg (1916–2002) began on a hot, still day in 1209, when a French army took Béziers, bastion of one of history's most romantic territories. The region covered all of present S. France. Its palaces were rich in art, dominated by codes of courtly love. Its tongue was a musical dialect that had given the region a flouri
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon (NY)
Pages no: 503
Edition language: English
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