The rise and decline of an Iberian bourgeoisie : Manresa in the later Middle Ages, 1250-1500 /
"The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie is one of the first long-term studies in English of an Iberian town during the late medieval crisis. Focusing on the Catalonian city of Manresa, Jeff Fynn-Paul expertly integrates Iberian historiography with European narratives to place the city&#...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series ;
no. 103. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Catalan urban institutions, the Catalan Bourgeoise and the late medieval crisis
- Part I. Politics
- 2. The creation of a regional capital : town government and Royal policy
- 3. A portrait of the Manresan Partricate
- 4. Plague, war and calamity : the makings of the fourteenth-century crisis at Manresa
- 5. The practice of government at Manresa during the fourteenth-century crisis
- Part II. Economy
- 6. The Aragonese financial revolution : a nexus of state formation and personal investment
- 7. Demography, wages and prices in the age of the Black Death
- 8. Fruits of the urban system : equality, inequality and quality of life
- 9. Conclusion: The rise and decline of Manresan civic vitality as a function of the city's "Bourgeois system," 1250-1500.
