Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval Iberia

A Social History of Manresa at the Time of the Black Death
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-59441-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. The book 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. The town in question is the market town and administrative centre of Manresa in Catalonia, whose exceptional archives make such a study possible. For the diachronic studies, Fynn-Paul relied upon the fact that Manresan archives preserve scores of individual family notarial registers, and the cross-sectional study was made possible by the Liber Manifesti of 1408, a cadastral survey which details the property holdings of individual householders to an unusually thorough degree.

In these pages, the economic and social strategies of many individuals, including both knights and burghers, come to light over the course of several generations. The Black Death and its aftermath play a prominent role in changing the outlook of many social actors. Other chapters detail the socioeconomic topography of the town, and examine occupational hierarchies, for such groups as rentiers, merchants, leatherworkers, cloth workers, women householders, and the poor.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fynn-Paul, Jeff

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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