Urban and Rural Communities in Medieval France: Provence and Languedoc, 1000-1500 (Medieval Mediterranean, 18)

edited by Kathryn Reyerson and John Drendel

ISBN 10: 9004108505 / ISBN 13: 9789004108509

Published by Leiden : Brill, 1998

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"The genesis of these papers was the 30th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in 1995, with additional contributions from the 31st Congress in 1996." Description: xxiv, 333 pages ; 25 cm. Contents: The notariate in the consular towns of Septimanian Languedoc (late twelfth-thirteenth centuries) / Maîté Lesné-Ferret -- Notaries, courts, and the legal culture of late medieval Marseille / Daniel Lord Smail -- Urban expansion in Languedoc from the eleventh to the fourteenth century : the example of Narbonne and Montpellier / Jacqueline Caille -- Mercator Florentinensis and others : immigration in papal Avignon / Joëlle Rollo-Koster -- Women, family, and immigration in fifteenth-century Manosque : the case of the Dodi family of Barcelonnette / Andrée Courtemanche -- Village communities of the plain and the mountain in Languedoc ca. 1300 / Monique Bourin -- Mountain society : village and town in medieval Foix / David Blanks -- Emphyteusis tenure : its role in the economy and in the rural society of eastern Languedoc / Jean-Claude Hélas -- Notarial practice in rural Provence in the early fourteenth century / John Drendel -- Town and country in Provence : Toulon, its notaries, and their clients / Christine Barnel -- Urban/rural exchange : reflections on the economic relations of town and country in the region of Montpellier before 1350 / Kathryn Reyerson -- The peasant citizens of Marseille at the turn of the fourteenth century / Francine Michaud -- Chatharism in the family in Languedoc in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries : an investigation based on Inquisition sources / Anne Bren.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Urban and Rural Communities in Medieval France: Provence and Languedoc, 1000-1500 (Medieval Mediterranean, 18)
• Publisher: Leiden : Brill
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004108505
• ISBN 13: 9789004108509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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 Université de Provence, is Assistant Professor of History at the Université de Québec à Montréal. His publications include Studies of Credit, Village Society, and Village Institutions in Fourteenth-century Provence.