Paris in the Middle Ages was home to royalty, mountebanks,
Knights Templar, merchants, prostitutes, and canons. Bursting
outward from the encompassing wall, it was Europe's largest, most
cosmopolitan city. Simone Roux chronicles the lives of Parisians
over the course of a dozen generations as Paris grew from a
military stronghold after the Battle of Bouvines in 1214 to a city
recovering from the Black Death of the 1390s.Roux peers into the
private lives of people within their homes and chronicles the
public world of affairs and entertainments, filling the pages of
her book with laborers, shopkeepers, magistrates, thieves, and
prelates. She examines the varied populations living within their
own realms but sharing the streets of the metropolis, in the Latin
Quarter, where the university dominated; in the precincts of Notre
Dame, with its large number of clerical inhabitants; the mercantile
Right Bank; and in the area surrounding the royal palace of the
Louvre, with its attendant palaces for the king's satellites. She
breathes life into dusty documents by explicating the lingo of
street insults, making sense of the cults of saints--Sebastian, who
was riddled with arrows, became the patron saint of tapestry
workers--and entering the courtrooms and confessionals to tell how
people actually ate, slept, dressed, fought, worked, and worshipped
in the later Middle Ages.
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