Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Maps
List of Contributors

Introduction: The Story of Town and Country

Pt. 1 Creating Communities In the Town
1 The Notariate in the Consular Towns of Septimanian Languedoc (Late Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries) -- Maite Lesne-Ferret 3
2 Notaries, Courts, and the Legal Culture of Late Medieval Marseille -- Daniel Lord Smail 23
3 Urban Expansion in Languedoc from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century: The Example of Narbonne and Montpellier -- Jacqueline Caille 51
4 Mercator Florentinensis and Others: Immigration in Papal Avignon -- Joelle Rollo-Koster 73
5 Women, Family, and Immigration in Fifteenth-Century Manosque: The Case of the Dodi Family of Barcelonnette -- Andree Courtemanche 101
In the Village
6 Village Communities of the Plain and the Mountain in Languedoc ca. 1300 -- Monique Bourin 131
7 Mountain Society: Village and Town in Medieval Foix -- David Blanks 163
8 Emphyteusis Tenure: Its Role in the Economy and in the Rural Society of Eastern Languedoc -- Jean-Claude Helas 193
9 Notarial Practice in Rural Provence in the Early Fourteenth Century -- John Drendel 209

Pt. 2 Communities at the Intersection of Village and Town
10 Town and Country in Provence: Toulon, Its Notaries, and Their Clients -- Christine Barnel 239
11 Urban/Rural Exchange: Reflections on the Economic Relations of Town and Country in the Region of Montpellier before 1350 -- Kathryn Reyerson 253
12 The Peasant Citizens of Marseille at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century -- Francine Michaud 275
13 Catharism in the Family in Languedoc in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: An Investigation Based on Inquisition Sources -- Anne Brenon 291

Index

About the Author

Kathryn L. Reyerson, Ph.D. (1974) in Medieval Studies, Yale University, is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She has published on medieval social and economic history, including Business, Banking and Finance in Medieval Montpellier and Society, Law, and Trade in Medieval Montpellier.
John Drendel, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Centre for Medieval Studies, with an advanced degree from the Université de Provence, is Assistant Professor of History at the Université de Québec à Montréal. His publications include Studies of Credit, Village Society, and Village Institutions in Fourteenth-century Provence.

Reviews

'...these articles join to overwhelming emphasis of most research of the past three decades in linking them.'
David M. Nicholas, The Medieval Review, 2000.