A vivid account of the lavish trains and embassies sent by men like Thomas Becket and William Fitzstephen Full of surprising and fascinating information - travel in the middle ages was often far more lavish and comfortable than it is today and many men travelled thousands of miles a year Highly accessible popular history Author is a distinguished medieval historian.
Margaret Wade Labarge was educated at Radcliffe College and Oxford University. She was a part-time lecturer in Medieval history at Ottowa University and Carleton University between 1950 and 1962 and a visiting professor at many other universities both in Canada and abroad. She is the author of nine books, is a Member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She lives in Ottowa, Ontario.
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