Paris in the Middle Ages Book

Translator's Introduction xi

Introduction 1

Part 1 Paris and Its Inhabitants (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries) 5

1 Urban Space: Designers and Occupants 9

The Enceinte Defined the City 9

Urban Growth to the Thirteenth Century 11

Witnesses to These Transformations 13

Ordinary Parisians in Urbanization 16

Paris, Home of the Free 18

The Big City at the End of the Middle Ages: Prosperity and Sorrow 21

Parisians in Their City 23

2 Street Scenes: Marvels and Perils of Parisian Life 29

The Flattery of Arts and Letters 29

Prosaic Glimpses 33

Normative Documents 35

The Streets of Paris: Life, Crime, and Punishment 38

The Streets of Paris: Religious Spaces and Political Spaces 41

3 Parisians 45

Provincial Immigrants 45

A Self-Sustaining Population 47

Strangers Assimilated and Individuals Distinguished 48

Tales of Ordinary Life 51

Parisians Between Modernity and Tradition 57

Part 2 A Kaleidoscope of Hierarchies 63

4 The World of Money: Haves and Have Nots 67

The Parisian Great Bourgeoisie 68

International Financiers and Royal Financial Agents 74

The Simple Bourgeois 76

From Comfort to Survival: The Poor and the Impoverished 78

5 The World of Political Power 83

Paris, Seat of the King and his Court 84

In the King's Service 86

And the Nobility? 90

Agents of Power: Procurators, Sergents, Clerks, and Others 91

6 The World of the Church 97

Church Grandees in the Capital 98

Ecclesiastical Seigneuries 100

A Clerical Patchwork Quilt 102

Religious Life Set the Beat for Paris Life 104

Scholars and Savants 107

The World of the Church and the World of Charity 111

Part 3 Of Works and Days 115

7 InShop and Workroom: Bringing Home the Bacon 119

The House as Work Space and Living Space 119

The World of the Artisans 123

Apprentices 124

Valets or Wage-Earning Journeymen 131

Masters, Jures, and Gardes 134

Outside the Crafts: Domestics and Unskilled Labor 135

Disturbances in the World of Labor 137

8 Networks of Solidarity: Obligatory Bonds and Chosen Ties 143

The Family Group, More Restrained Yet Less Constraining 144

Ordinary Parisian Women in the Time of Philip the Fair 148

Voluntary Attachments and Supportive Solidarities: Associations and Confraternities 156

9 Lifestyles 163

Intimacy: The Individual and the Community 164

Lodging from Palace to Cottage 165

Enclosed Space and Open Space, Public and Private 167

The Nuts and Bolts of Daily Life 174

Conclusion 195

Appendix: Parisian Taxpayers in 1297 201

Notes 203

Bibliography 229

Chronology 235

Glossary 239

Index 251