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Title: Don't waste your money...and beg your prof not to include it
Review: This book was on my medieval history course's required reading list...and it was dreadful. I'm not sure what was hated more...the fact that the author never ONCE cited her research or that she attempted to give her subject a personality without any basis in fact. If you want to know what life was like as a peasant there is a future professor, I would have severe doubts about using this in any course except perhaps historiography. If anyone had turned this book in as a senior thesis, no professor of mine would have accepted it; they would have ripped it to shreds for the lack of citing.
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