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Paris, 1200 (Hardcover)
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Paris, 1200 (Hardcover)
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Paris in 1200 was a city in transition. The great cathedral of
Notre Dame was halfway through its construction and walls were
being built to enclose the new, larger limits of the city. Pope
Innocent III ordered all French churches closed to punish King
Philip Augustus for his remarriage; the king himself negotiated an
unprecedented truce with the English; and the students of Paris
threatened a general strike, punctuated with incidents of violence,
to protest infringements of their rights.
John W. Baldwin brilliantly resurrects this key moment in Parisian
history using documents only from 1190 to 1210--a narrow focus made
possible by the availability of collections of the Capetian
monarchy and the medieval scholastic thinkers. This unique approach
results in a vivid snapshot of the city at the turn of the
thirteenth century.
"Paris, 1200" introduces the reader to the city itself and its
inhabitants. Three "faces" exemplify these inhabitants: that of the
celebrated scholar Pierre the Chanter, of King Philip Augustus, and
of the more deeply hidden visages of women. The book examines the
city's primary institutions: the royal government, the Church, and
its celebrated schools that evolved into the university at Paris.
Finally, it offers an account of the delights and pleasures, as
well as the fears and sorrows, of Parisian life in this period.
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