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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fynn-Paul, Jeff (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:	Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 103.
Subjects:	Middle Ages. City and town life > Spain > Manresa > History. Middle class > Spain > Manresa > History. Black Death > Spain > Manresa > History. Debts, Public > Spain > Manresa > History. Manresa (Spain) > History. Manresa (Spain) > Politics and government. Manresa (Spain) > Social conditions. Manresa (Spain) > Economic conditions. Spain > History > 711-1516.

Table of 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.

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