The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie: Manresa in the Later Middle Ages, 1250-1500

ISBN-13: 9781107464773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 369 str.

Jeff Fynn-Paul

Opis

One of the first long-term studies of the Catalonian city of Manresa during the late medieval crisis.

Recenzje

'Jeff Fynn-Paul provides a promising contribution to Spanish urban history in the later Middle Ages. Telling the story of the Catalan city of Manresa over the fourteenth century, he wisely combines three historiographical traditions (Iberian, English and European) in order to approach this region's position in the larger late medieval urban history.' David Gonza´lez Agudo, European History Quarterly

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Catalan urban institutions, the Catalan Bourgeoise and the late medieval crisis; Part I. Politics: 2. The creation of a regional capital: town government and Royal policy; 3. A portrait of the Manresan Partricate; 4. Plague, war and calamity: the makings of the fourteenth-century crisis at Manresa; 5. The practice of government at Manresa during the fourteenth-century crisis; Part II. Economy: 6. The Aragonese financial revolution: a nexus of state formation and personal investment; 7. Demography, wages and prices in the age of the Black Death; 8. Fruits of the urban system: equality, inequality and quality of life; 9. Conclusion: the rise and decline of Manresan civic vitality as a function of the city's 'Bourgeois system', 1250–1500; Bibliography; Index.