Title
Mountain Society: Village and Town in Medieval Foix
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Department
History & Political Science
Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
BOOK ABSTRACT:
This book deals with the evolution of urban and rural communities in Provence and Languedoc in the high and late Middle Ages. Contributions by thirteen French, American, and Canadian scholars address recent insights in historical research and suggest directions for future investigation. The urban and rural worlds are treated separately in studies of the growth of communities in their political, topographical, social, and economic dimensions. Then the intersection of these worlds is explored through the intricate interrelations of town and country in these regions. Notarial registers are particularly rich sources of evidence for these scholars who are mindful of the southern French tradition of Roman and written law which underpinned both urban and rural institutions as they emerged in the course of the medieval period.
First Page
163
Last Page
192
Publication Date
1998
Publisher
Brill
City
Leiden
ISBN
9789004108509
Recommended Citation
Blanks, David R. "Mountain Society: Village and Town in Medieval Foix" in Urban and Rural Communities in Medieval France: Provence and Languedoc, 1000-1500, eds. Kathryn Reyerson and John Drendel, 163-192. Leiden: Brill, 1998.