Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris
Subtitle: Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: December 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801472695
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Poverty; History: World; History; History - General History; France; Medieval; Gender Studies; Cost and standard of living; Paris; Poor; Services for; To 1500
First sentence: When we think of Paris in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries we tend to think not of poverty, but of extravagant, sumptuous wealth.