Paris in the Middle Ages / Simone Roux ; translated by Jo Ann McNamara.

Author/creator Roux, Simone, 1934-
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxvi, 249 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Uniform titleParis au Moyen Age. English
SeriesThe Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series. ^A511997
Contents Translator's introduction -- Introduction -- Part 1: Paris And Its Inhabitants (Thirteenth To Fifteenth Centuries) -- 1: Urban space: designers and occupants -- Enceinte defined the city -- Urban growth to the thirteenth century -- Witnesses to these transformations -- Ordinary Parisians in urbanization Paris, home of the free -- Big city at the end of the Middle Ages: prosperity and sorrow -- Parisians in their city -- 2: Street Scenes: marvels and perils of Parisian life -- Flattery of arts and letters -- Prosaic glimpses -- Normative documents -- Streets of Paris: Life, crime, and punishment -- Streets of Paris: Religious spaces and political spaces -- 3: Parisians -- Provincial immigrants -- Self-sustaining population -- Strangers assimilated and individuals distinguished -- Tales of ordinary life -- Parisians between modernity and tradition -- Part 2: Kaleidoscope Of Hierarchies -- 4: World of money: haves and have nots -- Parisian great Bourgeoisie -- International financiers and royal financial agents -- Simple Bourgeois -- From comfort to survival: the poor and the impoverished -- 5: World of political power -- Paris, seat of the king and his court -- In the king's service -- Nobility? -- Agents of power: procurators, sergents, clerks, and others --
Contents 6: World of the church -- Church grandees in the capital -- Ecclesiastical Seigneuries -- Clerical patchwork quilt -- Religious life set the beat for Paris life -- Scholars and savants -- World of the church and the world of charity -- Part 3: Of Works And Days -- 7: In shop and workroom: bringing home the bacon -- House as work space and living space -- World of the artisans -- Apprentices -- Valets or wage-earning journeymen -- Masters, jures, and gardes -- Outside the crafts: domestics and unskilled labor -- Disturbances in the world of labor -- 8: Networks of solidarity: obligatory bonds and chosen ties -- Family group, more restrained yet less constraining -- Ordinary Parisian women in the time of Philip the fair -- Voluntary attachments and supportive solidarities: associations and confraternities -- 9: Lifestyles -- Intimacy: the individual and the community -- Lodging from palace to cottage -- Enclosed space and open space, public and private -- Nuts and bolts of daily life -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Parisian taxpayers in 1297 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Index.
Abstract From the Publisher: Paris in the Middle Ages was home to royalty, mountebanks, Knights Templar, merchants, prostitutes, and canons. Bursting outward from the encompassing wall, it was Europe's largest, most cosmopolitan city. Simone Roux chronicles the lives of Parisians over the course of a dozen generations as Paris grew from a military stronghold after the Battle of Bouvines in 1214 to a city recovering from the Black Death of the 1390s. Centering on the streets of this metropolis, Roux peers into the private lives of people within their homes as well as the public world of affairs and entertainments, filling the pages of her book with laborers, shopkeepers, magistrates, thieves, and prelates. She examines the varied populations living within their own realms but sharing those streets: the Latin Quarter, where the university dominated; the precincts of Notre Dame, with its large number of clerical inhabitants; the mercantile world of the Right Bank; and the royal palace of the Louvre, with its attendant palaces for the king's satellites. She breathes life into dusty documents by explicating the lingo of street insults, making sense of patron saints-Sebastian, who was riddled with arrows, became the patron saint of tapestry workers-and entering the courtrooms and confessionals to tell how people actually ate, slept, dressed, fought, worked, and worshipped in the later Middle Ages.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-234) and index.
LCCN 2008035364
ISBN9780812241594 (alk. paper)
ISBN0812241592 (alk. paper)

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