Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie - Manresa in the Later Middle Ages, 1250-1500

One of the first long-term studies of the Catalonian city of Manresa during the late medieval crisis.

List 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; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Jeff Fynn-Paul is a Lecturer in History at Universiteit Leiden. His research interests include the economic and social history of Europe and the Mediterranean from 1300 to the present, and urban institutions, state formation, public debt, class and slavery in relation to economic growth.

Summary

Focusing on the Catalonian city of Manresa, this book offers one of the first long-term studies of an Iberian town during the late medieval crisis. Drawing together original sources and surveys, Jeff Fynn-Paul places the city's social, political and economic development within the broader context of late medieval urban decline.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Fynn-Paul, Jeff (Universiteit Leiden) Fynn-Paul, Fynn-Paul Jeff
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781107464773
• ISBN: 978-1-107-46477-3
• No. of pages: 369
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series; Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, Spain, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Spain