Women's Networks in Medieval France: Gender and Community in Montpellier, 1300-1350

280 Pages·2016·3.23 MB·English

by  Kathryn L. Reyerson (auth.)

T H E N E W M I D D L E A G E S
Women’s Networks
in
Medieval France
GENDER and COMMUNITY in
MONTPELLIER, 1300-1350
Kathryn L. Reyerson
The New Middle Ages
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Kathryn   L .   R eyerson
Women’s Networks in
Medieval France
Gender and Community in Montpellier, 1300-1350
Kathryn   L.   Reyerson
Department of History
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
The New Middle Ages
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REFACE
I am grateful to the University of Minnesota and the Department of
History for a single-semester leave in spring 2015 and for earlier leaves that
provided me with time to write, as well as for McKnight and McMillan
fellowships. I thank the Archives municipales de Montpellier and the
Archives départementales de l’Hérault for support in my research over
many years. I also wish to thank the University of Minnesota Interlibrary
Loan services for assistance.
I am grateful for the many audiences who listened to earlier versions
of parts of this study in France, Italy, and Spain, at the Sorbonne in the
seminar of Claude Gauvard and Robert Jacob, at the École Normale in the
seminar of François Menant, at the École française de Rome, and at the
Casa de Velásquez in Madrid.
I am indebted to colleagues Marguerite Ragnow and Ruth Karras for
reading earlier versions of this book. To Maggie in particular, a special
thanks for all the invaluable criticism and suggestions over the years.
Remaining errors are my responsibility alone.
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CKNOWLEDGMENTS
Some material included here, now considerably reworked, was originally
published in:
“The Adolescent Apprentice/Worker in Medieval Montpellier,” T he
Journal of Family History: The Evolution of Adolescence in Europe , ed.
Barbara A. Hanawalt, 17 (1992): 353–370.
“Prostitution in Medieval Montpellier: The Ladies of Campus Polverel,”
Medieval Prosopography 18 (1997): 209–228.
“Public and Private Space in Medieval Montpellier: The Bon Amic
Square,” J ournal of Urban History , 24 (1997): 3–27.
Thanks are due the Cartography Laboratory of the Geography
Department of the University of Minnesota for drawing the maps.
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