True citizens
Subtitle: violence, memory, and identity in the medieval community of Perpignan, 1162-1397
By: by Philip Daileader.
Series: The medieval Mediterranean,; v. 25
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Citizenship -- France -- Perpignan.; Urban policy -- France -- Perpignan -- History -- To 1500.; Perpignan (France) -- History -- To 1500.
Description: "This first book-length, English-language study of medieval urban citizenship focuses on Perpignan, a town second in population only to Barcelona in fourteenth-century Catalonia, yet neglected by modern historians. True Citizens describes and analyzes the rules that governed membership in the community of citizens, the definition of citizenship, and how the development of divergent memories within the community resulted in a crisis of citizenship." "This study uses urban citizenship to shed new light on many important historiographical issues, such as Jewish-Christian relations, the place of towns in feudal society, the place of Catalonia in the urban history of medieval Europe, and the transition from the High to the Late Middle Ages."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-273) and index.