Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris
Subtitle: Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801438363
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of religion; Poverty; Sex differences; Medieval; History; To 1500; History - General History; Services for; History: World; France; Paris; Europe - France; Social History; Women's Studies - General; Cost and standard of living; Poor
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.