Jeff Fynn-Paul (The Netherlands Leiden University)

Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval Iberia

A Social History of Manresa at the Time of the Black Death

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the social and occupational structure of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. It combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent families-one knightly and one mercantile-with a detailed cross-sectional urban study of household and occupation.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Medieval Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781138815346
• ISBN-10: 1138815349
• Artikelnr.: 40905883

Autorenporträt

Jeff Fynn-Paul is university lecturer at Leiden University's Institute for History.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Work, Status and Society in Urban Catalonia in the Era of
the Black Death Part I: Knightly and Burgher Families 2. Knights and
Burgers: Contrasting Ways of Life in Manresa and the Manresan Hinterland 3.
A Knightly Family of the Bages: The Talamancas, 1300-1450 4. A Manresan
Burgher Family: The Sartas, 1300-60 5. The Sarta Family, 1360-1420 Part II:
Occupations and Households in Manresa 6. A "Social Geography" of Manresa:
Occupation, Wealth and Neighbourhood 7. Households: Rentiers and Merchants
8. Households: Artisans and Women 9. Wage Labourers, Laboratores and the
Urban Poor 10. Conclusion