Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Not in years had France seen such rain. Farmers slogged stolidly out to their fields to harvest the sodden crops, mill the grain and send it on its way. In little (pop. 4,400) Pont-Saint-Esprit, perched on a bluff along the River Rhone in southern France, the townspeople...
The Parasite. Last week the word came back from the police laboratory:"We have identified a vegetable alkaloid having the toxic and biological characteristics of ergot, a cereal parasite." Pont-Saint-Esprit had been stricken by ergot poisoning, a medieval disease as old as its proud bridge, so old that...
Reinforcement of towers and masonry came first, but by last year trained workers began chipping away the rest of the Marienkirche's whitewash. Slowly they uncovered panel after panel of 13th and 14th Century work. With crude but forceful strokes, the old Gothic craftsmen had covered the walls with...
Informed that she would have to go home, even though she had turned 21 in June, Claire became hysterical, punched a policeman in the nose, and landed in a cell of Milan's medieval San Vittore prison.
The Vatican's 450-year-old corps of Swiss Guards carry medieval halberds and wear red-yellow-and-blue uniforms designed by Michelangelo. But they suffer from the cost of living just as much as floorwalkers or bus drivers. Last week, in an open letter sent to Rome newspapers...