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Author | : Sharon A. Farmer |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801472695 |
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Farmer extends and deepens the understanding of urban poverty in the high middle ages. She explores the ways in which cultural elites thought about the poor and shows that their conceptions of poor men and women were derived from the roles assigned to men and women in the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis - men are associated with productive labour; of labour within the public realm, and women with reproductive labour; or labour within the private realm.
Author | : Anne M. Scott |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131713785X |
Download Experiences of Poverty in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Exploring a range of poverty experiences-socioeconomic, moral and spiritual-this collection presents new research by a distinguished group of scholars working in the medieval and early modern periods. Collectively they explore both the assumptions and strategies of those in authority dealing with poverty and the ways in which the poor themselves tried to contribute to, exploit, avoid or challenge the systems for dealing with their situation. The studies demonstrate that poverty was by no means a simple phenomenon. It varied according to gender, age and geographical location; and the way it was depicted in speech, writing and visual images could as much affect how the poor experienced their poverty as how others saw and judged them. Using new sources-and adopting new approaches to known sources-the authors share insights into the management and the self-management of the poor, and search out aspects of the experience of poverty worthy of note, from which can be traced lasting influences on the continuing understanding and experience of poverty in pre-modern Europe.
Author | : Bronislaw Geremek |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2006-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521026123 |
Download The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book discusses the 'marginal' people of late medieval Paris, the large and shifting group of men and women who existed on the margins of conventional organized society. Professor Geremek examines the various groups which made up the marginal world - beggars, prostitutes, procuresses and pimps, petty criminals, casual workers and the unemployed - their haunts in and around Paris, their way of life, and their relation to 'normal' society. Professor Geremek has made with this book a major contribution to the study of late medieval society which illuminates the little-known area of the medieval underworld in a fascinating and very accessible manner. Translated by Jean Birrell from the French edition of 1976, this edition includes a new introduction by Jean-Claude Schmitt, which offers a frank appraisal of the author's life and career to date.
Author | : Meredith Cohen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351944231 |
Download Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Difference in medieval France was not solely a marker for social exclusion, provoking feelings of disgust and disaffection, but it could also create solidarity and sympathy among groups. Contributors to this volume address inclusion and exclusion from a variety of perspectives, ranging from ethnic and linguistic difference in Charlemagne's court, to lewd sculpture in Béarn, to prostitution and destitution in Paris. Arranged thematically, the sections progress from the discussion of tolerance and intolerance, through the clearly defined notion of foreignness, to the complex study of stranger identity in the medieval period. As a whole the volume presents a fresh, intriguing perspective on questions of exclusion and belonging in the medieval world.
Author | : Simone Roux |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2009-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812241592 |
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Centering on the streets of this metropolis, Simone Roux peers into the secret lives of people within their homes and the public world of affairs and entertainments, populating the book with laborers, shop keepers, magistrates, thieves, and strollers.
Author | : Tanya Stabler Miller |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812209680 |
Download The Beguines of Medieval Paris Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the thirteenth century, Paris was the largest city in Western Europe, the royal capital of France, and the seat of one of Europe's most important universities. In this vibrant and cosmopolitan city, the beguines, women who wished to devote their lives to Christian ideals without taking formal vows, enjoyed a level of patronage and esteem that was uncommon among like communities elsewhere. Some Parisian beguines owned shops and played a vital role in the city's textile industry and economy. French royals and nobles financially supported the beguinages, and university clerics looked to the beguines for inspiration in their pedagogical endeavors. The Beguines of Medieval Paris examines these religious communities and their direct participation in the city's commercial, intellectual, and religious life. Drawing on an array of sources, including sermons, religious literature, tax rolls, and royal account books, Tanya Stabler Miller contextualizes the history of Parisian beguines within a spectrum of lay religious activity and theological controversy. She examines the impact of women on the construction of medieval clerical identity, the valuation of women's voices and activities, and the surprising ways in which local networks and legal structures permitted women to continue to identify as beguines long after a church council prohibited the beguine status. Based on intensive archival research, The Beguines of Medieval Paris makes an original contribution to the history of female religiosity and labor, university politics and intellectual debates, royal piety, and the central place of Paris in the commerce and culture of medieval Europe.
Author | : Sharon Farmer |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0812248481 |
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Sharon Farmer analyzes the evidence concerning the medieval silk industry, adding new perspectives to our understanding of medieval French history, luxury trade, labor migration, intercultural exchange, and gendered work.
Author | : Tyler Lange |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2016-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316565378 |
Download Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange analyzes over 11,000 excommunications between 1380 and 1530 in order to explore the forms, rhythms, and cultural significance of the practice. Three case studies demonstrate how excommunication for debt facilitated minor transactions in an age of scarce small-denomination coinage and how interest-free loans and sales credits could be viewed as encouraging the relations of charitable exchange that were supposed to exist between members of Christ's body. Lange also demonstrates how from 1500 or so believers gradually turned away from the practice and towards secular courts, at the same time as they retained the moralized, economically irrational conception of indebtedness we have yet to shake. The demand-driven rise and fall of excommunication for debt reveals how believers began to reshape the institutional Church well before Martin Luther posted his theses.
Author | : Margaret Schaus |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 986 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415969441 |
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Author | : Kathryn L. Reyerson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3319389424 |
Download Women's Networks in Medieval France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval period. To do this, Kathryn L. Reyerson focuses specifically on the experiences of Agnes de Bossones, widow of a changer of the mercantile elite of Montpellier. Agnes was a real estate mogul and a patron of philanthropic institutions that permitted lower strata women to survive and thrive in a mature urban economy of the period before 1350. Notably, Montpellier was a large urban center in southern France. Linkages stretched horizontally and vertically in this robust urban environment, mitigating the restrictions of patriarchy and the constraints of gender. Using the story of Agnes de Bossones as a vehicle to larger discussions about gender, this book highlights the undeniable impact that networks had on women’s mobility and navigation within a restrictive medieval society.