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Essay 5b: The King of Gold in the historical setting
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Dec 17 2006, 10:12 PM EST
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The gold of Mansa’s emblem is true gold. He was staggeringly wealthy even by modern standards, for his realm included the southern gold-mines of Ghana
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pilgrimage and from the evidence of later card-sets, it seems this structure was identified as the palace of the Southern lord. Thus, when the Atout
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One might make a book of collected extracts: called ‘florilegia’ [flower-gatherings] or miroirs or tresors. (The ‘tresor,’ whose loss the Cathars lamented is more likely to have been the ‘key’ to their system of belief than a treasure of money, wealth being disdained by the perfect).
Properly speaking,
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The gold of Mansa’s emblem is meant to be seen as true gold. He was staggeringly wealthy even by modern standards, for he ruled the
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