Family, Work and Household in Late Medieval Iberia ─ A Social History of Manresa in the Time of the Black Death

Based on extensive archival research, this book traces the social, political, and economic development of the city Manresa in Catalonia during the later middle ages. It combines a narrative of long-term developments with one of the most precise snapshots of the people living in a late medieval city which has ever been produced. Reviving a classic, though recently neglected genre - the late medieval "urban decline" narrative centered on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries - the book applies this analysis, using the latest urban-historical scholarship from across Europe on topics such as state formation, women’s work, and state formation, to an Iberian city.

Jeff Fynn-Paul is Lecturer at the History Institute at Leiden University.