Paris in the Middle Ages

This social history reconstructs daily life in Paris from the thirteenth century through the later Middle Ages, roughly from the years after Bouvines to the aftermath of the Black Death. Roux uses tax rolls, property records, and court papers to describe the walled city, its streets, and its mix of immigrants and long-settled households. She then maps hierarchies of money, royal and municipal power, and the Church, before turning to workshops, apprentices, family ties, and household routines. The focus is ordinary Parisians - artisans, women, the poor - rather than kings or monuments. It is an urban social study, not a chronicle of battles.

Bound in blue buckram with a Modigliani paper band down the cover, printed with a colour design by Neil Gower. Red slipcase.