Studies in the Ecclesiastical and Social History of Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars / Edition 1

by John Hine Mundy

Overview

Studies in the Ecclesiastical and Social History of Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars is John H. Mundy's last major book concerning social and religious life in the city of Toulouse during the period 1150-1250 AD, a time when the alternate religion of Catharism, together with other divergent beliefs, rose to its height and, soon under intense repression, began to die out. The various studies, entirely reworked for this publication, and prefaced with an account of Mundy's early research in the Toulouse archives in 1946-47, document his understanding that religious divergence flourished when the town's well-to-do were building a semi-popular oligarchy at the expense of local princely power. The book reveals how the religious orders managed an extensive insurance network providing pensions, old age care and burial for lay society. His chapters on hospitals and leprosaries, charities, entertainers, judges, heretics and usurers bring the daily life of this period to life. The studies of Toulouse are enhanced by Mundy's expert cartography drawing on the Plan Sanguet of 1750. This volume, compiled in the year prior to his death, represents the culmination of his long career as archivist, scholar and teacher. It completes the work he began in 1946 and published in earlier books: The Medieval Town (Princeton, 1958), Europe in the High Middle Ages, 1150-1309 (Longman, 1975), The Repression of Catharism at Toulouse: the Royal Diploma of 1279 (Toronto, 1985), Men and Women at Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars (Toronto, 1990) and Society and Government at Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars (PIMS, 1997).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754653165
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/28/2006
Series:	Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Hine Mundy was formerly Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, USA.

Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword; Introduction. Articles: The town's parishes from 1150-1250; Charity and social work 1100-1250; The Toulousain: village, town and city. Notes: The abjuration of Peter Maurandus; Heretics and usurers: episcopal judges and the 'official; Troubadours and entertainers; Fontanas: a family, a monastery and a pope; 13th-century religious foundations; The college of Saint-Raymond; Hospitals and leproseries around 1400; Sources of documents and publications. Index.

Editorial Reviews

’...for those interested in Toulouse it is a welcome addition to his other texts. In addition, the essays provide a wealth of analysis and evidence to those interested in the development of charitable institutions and urban churches throughout medieval Europe.’ H-France Review

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