Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris - Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor

Klappentext Of particular interest are Farmer's discussions of society's responses to men and women who were disabled to the point of being incapable of any work at all. Zusammenfassung This book about poor men and women in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Paris reveals the other side of the "age of cathedrals" in the very place where gothic architecture and scholastic theology were born. In Surviving Poverty in Medieval...

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Farmer
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2005
• EAN: 9780801472695
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-7269-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages