A busker sings in the langue d'oc of Provence (p. 322).
"Medieval man generally worked a long day but at a leisurely pace; and he enjoyed more free time, in the form of frequent holidys, than his twentieth-century descendants." (p. 323)
"...Roger II...took full mastery in 1122, and set about regaining southern Italy for the house of Hauteville." (p. 325)
A Dane born in Copenhagen in 1864 describes himself as a Victorian (p. 326). (He is a Time Patrolman, which is how he comes to be in twelfth century Sicily.)
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