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

by Sharon Farmer

Book Overview

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 Paris, Sharon Farmer extends and deepens the understanding of urban poverty in the High Middle Ages. She explores the ways in which cultural elites thought about the poor, and shows that their conceptions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801438365
• ISBN13: 9780801438363
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher