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Cargando... Paris in the Middle Ages [FOLIO SOCIETY Edition] (edición 2014)por Simone. Translated By Jo Ann Mcnamara. Preface By Andrew Hussey. Roux (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This shows the utility and the limitations of microhistory. Roux teases out pretty much everything that twelfth- and thirteenth-century sources can say about Paris in the Middle Ages, but more often than not, has to extrapolate from records of the notable to speak about the bourgeois. Which is a shame, because what she can say -- the gender stuff especially -- is fascinating and I want more. ( ) This is quite a readable history of Paris from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. Roux begins her account with the construction of the great enceinte, or wall, constructed around Paris by Philip Augustus which demarcated urban from rural. She then discusses the alteration of the landscape by the growing population, public and private architecture, work and apprenticeships, the problems of urban life, and living space. Pitched at a level accessible to the interested lay reader or the undergraduate student, Paris in the Middle Ages has much to recommend it and is clearly the kind of book which can only be written by someone who's spent a lifetime immersing themselves in the archives. However, I felt that the book would have been much strengthened had Roux engaged with things outside the archives—if she had not just broadened the range of documentary evidence which she considered, but made better use of the surviving archaeological evidence. The almost total absence of archaeological sources is a little baffling in a book which aims to deal with material culture. The lack of maps and illustrations likewise—if one is not very familiar with the streetscape of medieval Paris, envisioning the world Roux tries to conjure up is difficult. This is a fairly dry history of Paris during the latter middle ages. The book simply does not live up to the Amazon review. It does very little, in fact, to permit you to peer into the everyday lives of Parisians during this period. Indeed, Roux concedes that there is simply not that much information out there, leading historians to speculate from sporadic glimpses afforded by court trials, arrest records, and wills. Roux does provide an excellent structural framework for understanding life in Paris; however, it is all generalized. The book disappointed me. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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From the Publisher: Paris in the Middle Ages was home to royalty, mountebanks, Knights Templar, merchants, prostitutes, and canons. Bursting outward from the encompassing wall, it was Europe's largest, most cosmopolitan city. Simone Roux chronicles the lives of Parisians over the course of a dozen generations as Paris grew from a military stronghold after the Battle of Bouvines in 1214 to a city recovering from the Black Death of the 1390s. Centering on the streets of this metropolis, Roux peers into the private lives of people within their homes as well as the public world of affairs and entertainments, filling the pages of her book with laborers, shopkeepers, magistrates, thieves, and prelates. She examines the varied populations living within their own realms but sharing those streets: the Latin Quarter, where the university dominated; the precincts of Notre Dame, with its large number of clerical inhabitants; the mercantile world of the Right Bank; and the royal palace of the Louvre, with its attendant palaces for the king's satellites. She breathes life into dusty documents by explicating the lingo of street insults, making sense of patron saints-Sebastian, who was riddled with arrows, became the patron saint of tapestry workers-and entering the courtrooms and confessionals to tell how people actually ate, slept, dressed, fought, worked, and worshipped in the later Middle Ages. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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