The rise and decline of an Iberian bourgeoisie : Manresa in the later Middle Ages, 1250-1500 / Jeff Fynn-Paul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fynn-Paul, Jeff, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 103.

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 103

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages.

City and town life--Spain--Manresa--History.

City and town life.

Middle class--Spain--Manresa--History.

Middle class.

Black Death--Spain--Manresa--History.

Black Death.

Debts, Public--Spain--Manresa--History.

Debts, Public.

Manresa (Spain)--History.

Manresa (Spain).

Manresa (Spain)--Politics and government.

Manresa (Spain)--Social conditions.

Manresa (Spain)--Economic conditions.

Spain--History--711-1516.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 347 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Rise & Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie is one of the first long-term studies in English of an Iberian town during the late medieval crisis. Focusing on the Catalonian city of Manresa, Jeff Fynn-Paul expertly integrates Iberian historiography with European narratives to place the city's social, political and economic development within the broader context of late medieval urban decline. Drawing from extensive archival research, including legal and administrative records, royal letters, and a cadastral survey of more than 640 households entitled the 1408 Liber Manifesti, the author surveys the economic strategies of both elites and non-elites to a level previously unknown for any medieval town outside of Tuscany and Ghent. In a major contribution to the series, The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie reveals how a combination of the Black Death, royal policy, and a new public debt system challenged, and finally undermined urban resilience in Catalonia.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-43018-9

1-316-43444-3

1-316-43515-6

1-316-43657-8

1-316-43799-X

1-316-43586-5

1-316-43941-0

1-316-13569-1