Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris

Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris PDF Author: Sharon A. Farmer
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801472695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Book Description
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.