Kathryn Reyerson Livres

This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval period. To do this, Kathryn L. Reyerson focuses specifically on the experiences of Agnes de Bossones, widow of a changer of the mercantile elite of Montpellier. Agnes was a real estate mogul and a patron of philanthropic institutions that permitted lower strata women to survive and thrive in a mature urban economy of the period before 1350. Notably, Montpellier was a large urban center in southern France. Linkages stretched horizontally and vertically in this robust urban environment, mitigating the restrictions of patriarchy and the constraints of gender. Using the story of Agnes de Bossones as a vehicle to larger discussions about gender, this book highlights the undeniable impact that networks had on women’s mobility and navigation within a restrictive medieval society.

Th. G. Stavrou, Thomas Schaub Noonan (1938-2000): Colleague and Friend J. Shepard, Closer Encounters with the Byzantine World: The Rus at the Straits of Kerch P. B. Golden, The Khazar Sacral Kingship A. Stalsberg, B. le Beau, Identi. cation of the Square of Viking Age Boat Nails: The Experience from Middle Norway N. Makarov, Traders in the Forest: The Northern Periphery of Rus’ in the Medieval Trade Network T. T. Allsen, Falconry and the Exchange Networks of Medieval Eurasia R. Hellie, Re. ections on Muscovite Society in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century J. Martin, Coins, Commerce, and the Conceptualization of Kievan Rus’

This volume deals with the evolution of urban and rural communities in Provence and Languedoc in the high and late Middle Ages. Contributions by thirteen French, American, and Canadian scholars address recent insights in historical research and suggest directions for future investigation. The urban and rural worlds are treated separately in studies of the growth of communities in their political, topographical, social, and economic dimensions. Then the intersection of these worlds is explored through the intricate interrelations of town and country in these regions. Notarial registers are particularly rich sources of evidence for these scholars who are mindful of the southern French tradition of Roman and written law which underpinned both urban and rural institutions as they emerged in the course of the medieval period.

Urban ceremonial in the Middle Ages took various forms and served a number of different ends--private, collegial, political, and religious. Broadly construed, urban ceremonial included public functions of multiple sorts. From private, but public, celebrations of births, marriages, and deaths to the grand entries of rulers into cities, the spectacles were designed to impress events on collective memory. - from the Introduction.