List of Tables, Figures, and Maps
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Story of Town and Country
Pt. 1 Creating Communities In the Town
1 The Notariate in the Consular Towns of Septimanian Languedoc
(Late Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries) -- Maite Lesne-Ferret 3
2 Notaries, Courts, and the Legal Culture of Late Medieval
Marseille -- Daniel Lord Smail 23
3 Urban Expansion in Languedoc from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth
Century: The Example of Narbonne and Montpellier -- Jacqueline
Caille 51
4 Mercator Florentinensis and Others: Immigration in Papal Avignon
-- Joelle Rollo-Koster 73
5 Women, Family, and Immigration in Fifteenth-Century Manosque: The
Case of the Dodi Family of Barcelonnette -- Andree Courtemanche
101
In the Village
6 Village Communities of the Plain and the Mountain in Languedoc
ca. 1300 -- Monique Bourin 131
7 Mountain Society: Village and Town in Medieval Foix -- David
Blanks 163
8 Emphyteusis Tenure: Its Role in the Economy and in the Rural
Society of Eastern Languedoc -- Jean-Claude Helas 193
9 Notarial Practice in Rural Provence in the Early Fourteenth
Century -- John Drendel 209
Pt. 2 Communities at the Intersection of Village and Town
10 Town and Country in Provence: Toulon, Its Notaries, and Their
Clients -- Christine Barnel 239
11 Urban/Rural Exchange: Reflections on the Economic Relations of
Town and Country in the Region of Montpellier before 1350 --
Kathryn Reyerson 253
12 The Peasant Citizens of Marseille at the Turn of the Fourteenth
Century -- Francine Michaud 275
13 Catharism in the Family in Languedoc in the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Centuries: An Investigation Based on Inquisition Sources
-- Anne Brenon 291
Index
Kathryn L. Reyerson, Ph.D. (1974) in Medieval Studies, Yale
University, is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.
She has published on medieval social and economic history,
including Business, Banking and Finance in Medieval Montpellier and
Society, Law, and Trade in Medieval Montpellier.
John Drendel, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Centre for Medieval
Studies, with an advanced degree from the Université de Provence,
is Assistant Professor of History at the Université de Québec à
Montréal. His publications include Studies of Credit, Village
Society, and Village Institutions in Fourteenth-century Provence.
'...these articles join to overwhelming emphasis of most research
of the past three decades in linking them.'
David M. Nicholas, The Medieval Review, 2000.
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