This is a book about women’s interactions in the first half of the fourteenth century in Montpellier, a large urban center in southern France in the region of Languedoc. The underlying theme is that o
In the late 1320s, Martha de Cabanis was widowed with three young sons, eleven, eight, and four years of age. Her challenges would be many: to raise and train her children to carry on their father's b
This book explores the rarely recognized roles of notaries, innkeepers, brokers, transporters, and personnel of the merchant's entourage in medieval trade. The Mediterranean French marketplace of Mont
The Medieval Castle was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original
The first full length volume to approach the premodern Mediterranean from a fully interdisciplinary perspective, this collection defines the Mediterranean as a coherent region with distinct patterns o
English translations of one year of documents penned by Holanie in the southern French town Montpellier demonstrate the work of notaries during the Middle Ages, public scribes who were responsible for
