Author:
Roux, Simone, 1934-
Imprint:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.
Descriptionxvi, 249 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Note:Translator's introduction -- Introduction -- Part 1: Paris And Its Inhabitants (Thirteenth To Fifteenth Centuries) -- 1: Urban space: designers and occupants -- Enceinte defined the city -- Urban growth to the thirteenth century -- Witnesses to these transformations -- Ordinary Parisians in urbanization Paris, home of the free -- Big city at the end of the Middle Ages: prosperity and sorrow -- Parisians in their city -- 2: Street Scenes: marvels and perils of Parisian life -- Flattery of arts and letters -- Prosaic glimpses -- Normative documents -- Streets of Paris: Life, crime, and punishment -- Streets of Paris: Religious spaces and political spaces -- 3: Parisians -- Provincial immigrants -- Self-sustaining population -- Strangers assimilated and individuals distinguished -- Tales of ordinary life -- Parisians between modernity and tradition -- Part 2: Kaleidoscope Of Hierarchies -- 4: World of money: haves and have nots -- Parisian great Bourgeoisie -- International financiers and royal financial agents -- Simple Bourgeois -- From comfort to survival: the poor and the impoverished -- 5: World of political power -- Paris, seat of the king and his court -- In the king's service -- Nobility? -- Agents of power: procurators, sergents, clerks, and others --6: World of the church -- Church grandees in the capital -- Ecclesiastical Seigneuries -- Clerical patchwork quilt -- Religious life set the beat for Paris life -- Scholars and savants -- World of the church and the world of charity -- Part 3: Of Works And Days -- 7: In shop and workroom: bringing home the bacon -- House as work space and living space -- World of the artisans -- Apprentices -- Valets or wage-earning journeymen -- Masters, jures, and gardes -- Outside the crafts: domestics and unskilled labor -- Disturbances in the world of labor -- 8: Networks of solidarity: obligatory bonds and chosen ties -- Family group, more restrained yet less constraining -- Ordinary Parisian women in the time of Philip the fair -- Voluntary attachments and supportive solidarities: associations and confraternities -- 9: Lifestyles -- Intimacy: the individual and the community -- Lodging from palace to cottage -- Enclosed space and open space, public and private -- Nuts and bolts of daily life -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Parisian taxpayers in 1297 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Index.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-234) and index.
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