Paris in the Middle Ages Book

Translator's Introduction Introduction

PART ONE: PARIS AND ITS INHABITANTS (THIRTEENTH-FIFTEENTH CENTURIES)
Chapter 1: Urban Space: Designers and Occupants
—The Enceinte Defined the City
—Urban Growth to the Thirteenth Century
—Witnesses to These Transformations
—Ordinary Parisians in Urbanization
—Paris, Home of the Free
—The Big City at the End of the Middle Ages: Prosperity and Sorrow.
—Parisians in Their City Chapter 2: Street Scenes: Marvels and Perils of Parisian Life
—The Flattery of Arts and Letters
—Prosaic Glimpses
—Normative Documents
—The Streets of Paris: Life, Crime and Punishment
—The Streets of Paris: Religious Spaces and Political Spaces Chapter 3: Parisians
—Provincial Immigrants
—A Self-Sustaining Population
—Strangers Assimilated and Individuals Distinguished
—Tales of Ordinary Life
—Parisians Between Modernity and Tradition

PART TWO: A KALEIDOSCOPE OF HIERARCHIES Chapter 4: The World of Money: Haves and Have Nots
—The Parisian Great Bourgeoisie
—International Financiers and Royal Financial Agents
—The Simple Bourgeois
—From Comfort to Survival: The Poor and the Impoverished Chapter 5: The World of Political Power
—Paris, Seat of the King and his Court
—In the King's Service
—And the Nobility?
—Agents of Power: Procurators, Sergeants, Clerks, and Others Chapter 6: The World of the Church
—Church Grandees in the Capital
—Ecclesiastical Seigneuries
—A Clerical Patchwork Quilt
—Religious Life Set the Beat for Paris Life
—Scholars and Savants
—The World of the Church and the World of Charity

PART THREE: OF WORKS AND DAYS Chapter 7: In Shop and Workroom: Bringing Home the Bacon
—The House as Work Space and Living Space
—The World of the Artisans
—Apprentices
—Valets or Wage-Earning Journeymen
—Masters, Jurés, and Gardes
—Outside the Crafts: Domestics and Unskilled Labor
—Disturbances in the World of Labor Chapter 8: Networks of Solidarity: Obligatory Bonds and Chosen Ties
—The 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 Chapter 9: Lifestyles
—Intimacy: The Individual and the Community
—Lodging from Palace to Cottage
—Enclosed Space and Open Space, Public and Private
—The Nuts and Bolts of Daily Life

Conclusion Appendix: Parisian Taxpayers in 1297
Notes Bibliography Chronology Glossary Index