Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval Iberia - 9780367594411

Taylor & Francis

Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval IberiaA Social History of Manresa at the Time of the Black Death\nAuthor(s): Jeff Fynn-Paul\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367594411, 978-0367594411\nSynopsis\nFamily, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent familiesone knightly and one mercantilewith a detailed cross-sectional urban study of household and occupation. The town in question is the market town and administrative centre of Manresa in Catalonia, whose exceptional archives make such a study possible. For the diachronic studies, Fynn-Paul relied upon the fact that Manresan archives preserve scores of individual family notarial registers, and the cross-sectional study was made possible by the Liber Manifesti of 1408, a cadastral survey which details the proper.