Paris in the Middle Ages

Translator's introduction

Introduction

Part 1: Paris And Its Inhabitants (Thirteenth To Fifteenth Centuries)

1: Urban space: designers and occupants

Enceinte defined the city

Urban growth to the thirteenth century

Witnesses to these transformations

Ordinary Parisians in urbanization

Paris, home of the free

Big city at the end of the Middle Ages: prosperity and sorrow

Parisians in their city

2: Street Scenes: marvels and perils of Parisian life

Flattery of arts and letters

Prosaic glimpses

Normative documents

Streets of Paris: Life, crime, and punishment

Streets of Paris: Religious spaces and political spaces

3: Parisians

Provincial immigrants

Self-sustaining population

Strangers assimilated and individuals distinguished

Tales of ordinary life

Parisians between modernity and tradition

Part 2: Kaleidoscope Of Hierarchies

4: World of money: haves and have nots

Parisian great Bourgeoisie

International financiers and royal financial agents

Simple Bourgeois

From comfort to survival: the poor and the impoverished

5: World of political power

Paris, seat of the king and his court

In the king's service

Nobility?

Agents of power: procurators, sergents, clerks, and others.

6: World of the church

Church grandees in the capital

Ecclesiastical Seigneuries

Clerical patchwork quilt

Religious life set the beat for Paris life

Scholars and savants

World of the church and the world of charity

Part 3: Of Works And Days

7: In shop and workroom: bringing home the bacon

House as work space and living space

World of the artisans

Apprentices

Valets or wage-earning journeymen

Masters, jures, and gardes

Outside the crafts: domestics and unskilled labor

Disturbances in the world of labor

8: Networks of solidarity: obligatory bonds and chosen ties

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

9: Lifestyles

Intimacy: the individual and the community

Lodging from palace to cottage

Enclosed space and open space, public and private

Nuts and bolts of daily life

Conclusion

Appendix: Parisian taxpayers in 1297

Notes

Bibliography

Chronology

Glossary

Index.