Rabelais and his world -- being the book that links us to sixteenth-century pop culture.

From: New Internationalist | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: Milligan, Tony | Copyright information

Medieval and early-modern commoners did not leave a great deal of literary material behind them. With rare exceptions they did not leave diaries or sheets of biography tucked discreetly under the floorboards; few scattered testaments of their lives were slipped conveniently inside the family bible, ready for later generations to discover and marvel at.

Most of the surviving written sources which do touch upon the lives of the peasantry and the artisans were written by mem...

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