“They also found extra payments for threshing, gifts of wheat, food and drink at mid-day, a bonus for working in the rain: all put down to general expenses but going to the workers.” — Michael Pye Copy Share Image
“the house had been set up by two countesses ‘by divine inspiration, as it is piously believed’, to preserve the respectability of women who… — Michael Pye Copy Share Image
“The poorer women lived from wages, the richer women sank their money into houses they often shared with other beguines. That did not stop… — Michael Pye Copy Share Image
“they were a closed society, not ready even for a biological intruder” — Michael Pye Copy Share Image
“but we know enough from the early years to see that the machinery of the law was mostly used against workers who wanted more… — Michael Pye Copy Share Image
“Take away the idea of dark times and ruin and you begin to hear other voices. Women were not always silent, or without the… — Michael Pye Copy Share Image
“Bring the words and the objects together, though, and the new story is much more convincingly human. Life no longer stops dead when Rome… — Michael Pye Copy Share Image
“this one beach holds the story of a world always changing, always on the move.” — Michael Pye Copy Share Image
“They also found extra payments for threshing, gifts of wheat, food and drink at mid-day, a bonus for working in the rain: all put… — Michael Pye Copy Share Image
