Urban and Rural Communities in Medieval France
Provence and Languedoc, 1000-1500
Published on 31. July 1998
Book
Leather / fine binding
XXIV, 333 pages
978-90-04-10850-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume deals with the evolution of urban and rural communities in Provence and Languedoc in the high and late Middle Ages. Contributions by thirteen French, American, and Canadian scholars address recent insights in historical research and suggest directions for future investigation. The urban and rural worlds are treated separately in studies of the growth of communities in their political, topographical, social, and economic dimensions. Then the intersection of these worlds is explored through the intricate interrelations of town and country in these regions. Notarial registers are particularly rich sources of evidence for these scholars who are mindful of the southern French tradition of Roman and written law which underpinned both urban and rural institutions as they emerged in the course of the medieval period.
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'...these articles join to overwhelming emphasis of most research of the past three decades in linking them.'David M. Nicholas, The Medieval Review, 2000.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Fig., Tab., Ktn
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
789 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-10850-9 (9789004108509)
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Persons
Kathryn L. Reyerson, Ph.D. (1974) in Medieval Studies, Yale University, is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She has published on medieval social and economic history, including Business, Banking and Finance in Medieval Montpellier and Society, Law, and Trade in Medieval Montpellier.
John Drendel, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Centre for Medieval Studies, with an advanced degree from the Universite de Provence, is Assistant Professor of History at the Universite de Quebec a Montreal. His publications include Studies of Credit, Village Society, and Village Institutions in Fourteenth-century Provence.
John Drendel, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Centre for Medieval Studies, with an advanced degree from the Universite de Provence, is Assistant Professor of History at the Universite de Quebec a Montreal. His publications include Studies of Credit, Village Society, and Village Institutions in Fourteenth-century Provence.
Content
List of Tables, Figures, and Maps
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Story of Town and Country
Pt. 1 Creating Communities In the Town
1 The Notariate in the Consular Towns of Septimanian Languedoc (Late Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries) -- Maite Lesne-Ferret 3
2 Notaries, Courts, and the Legal Culture of Late Medieval Marseille -- Daniel Lord Smail 23
3 Urban Expansion in Languedoc from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century: The Example of Narbonne and Montpellier -- Jacqueline Caille 51
4 Mercator Florentinensis and Others: Immigration in Papal Avignon -- Joelle Rollo-Koster 73
5 Women, Family, and Immigration in Fifteenth-Century Manosque: The Case of the Dodi Family of Barcelonnette -- Andree Courtemanche 101
In the Village
6 Village Communities of the Plain and the Mountain in Languedoc ca. 1300 -- Monique Bourin 131
7 Mountain Society: Village and Town in Medieval Foix -- David Blanks 163
8 Emphyteusis Tenure: Its Role in the Economy and in the Rural Society of Eastern Languedoc -- Jean-Claude Helas 193
9 Notarial Practice in Rural Provence in the Early Fourteenth Century -- John Drendel 209
Pt. 2 Communities at the Intersection of Village and Town
10 Town and Country in Provence: Toulon, Its Notaries, and Their Clients -- Christine Barnel 239
11 Urban/Rural Exchange: Reflections on the Economic Relations of Town and Country in the Region of Montpellier before 1350 -- Kathryn Reyerson 253
12 The Peasant Citizens of Marseille at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century -- Francine Michaud 275
13 Catharism in the Family in Languedoc in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: An Investigation Based on Inquisition Sources -- Anne Brenon 291
Index
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Story of Town and Country
Pt. 1 Creating Communities In the Town
1 The Notariate in the Consular Towns of Septimanian Languedoc (Late Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries) -- Maite Lesne-Ferret 3
2 Notaries, Courts, and the Legal Culture of Late Medieval Marseille -- Daniel Lord Smail 23
3 Urban Expansion in Languedoc from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century: The Example of Narbonne and Montpellier -- Jacqueline Caille 51
4 Mercator Florentinensis and Others: Immigration in Papal Avignon -- Joelle Rollo-Koster 73
5 Women, Family, and Immigration in Fifteenth-Century Manosque: The Case of the Dodi Family of Barcelonnette -- Andree Courtemanche 101
In the Village
6 Village Communities of the Plain and the Mountain in Languedoc ca. 1300 -- Monique Bourin 131
7 Mountain Society: Village and Town in Medieval Foix -- David Blanks 163
8 Emphyteusis Tenure: Its Role in the Economy and in the Rural Society of Eastern Languedoc -- Jean-Claude Helas 193
9 Notarial Practice in Rural Provence in the Early Fourteenth Century -- John Drendel 209
Pt. 2 Communities at the Intersection of Village and Town
10 Town and Country in Provence: Toulon, Its Notaries, and Their Clients -- Christine Barnel 239
11 Urban/Rural Exchange: Reflections on the Economic Relations of Town and Country in the Region of Montpellier before 1350 -- Kathryn Reyerson 253
12 The Peasant Citizens of Marseille at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century -- Francine Michaud 275
13 Catharism in the Family in Languedoc in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: An Investigation Based on Inquisition Sources -- Anne Brenon 291
Index