Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval Iberia: A Social History of Manresa at the Time of the Black Death

ISBN-13: 9780367594411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 274 str.

Jeff Fynn-Paul

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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