Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris

Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0801472695
ISBN-13 : 9780801472695
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Book Synopsis Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris by : Sharon A. Farmer

Download or read book Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris written by Sharon A. Farmer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmer extends and deepens the understanding of urban poverty in the high middle ages. She explores the ways in which cultural elites thought about the poor and shows that their conceptions of poor men and women were derived from the roles assigned to men and women in the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis - men are associated with productive labour; of labour within the public realm, and women with reproductive labour; or labour within the private realm.


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