A modest grant from Columbia Univer- sity and a small supplemental one from the Social Science Research Council permitted a visit to Catalonia, England and especially France in the fall of 1946 and the spring and summer of 1947 to look for documents illuminating the economic and social history of the town of Toulouse in the age of the Cathars. [...] This broad amphitheater is bounded by the hills of Gascony to the west, the gradients and canyons of Quercy and the Albigeois leading to the Massif Central to the north and east; to the south, after the ample plains of the Lauragais and Comminges, by the sub-Pyrenean depression and behind it the Pyrenees themselves, whose snow-capped curtain can be seen in winter from the town itself. [...] Map 1: The Region of Toulouse The inner dotted line around the town roughly delineates the area adminis- tered by the consuls, the board of magistrates elected by the town, called in this period the "dex" and afterward the "gardiage"; the outer dotted line, MAP 1 THE REGION OF TOULOUSE MAP 2 THE TOWN OF TOULOUSE INTRODUCTION 7 the vicarage administered by the count of Toulouse's vicar, an officer [...] The gate was part of a dismantled wall that divided the City from the Bourg called the Saracen Wall, remnants of which are marked on the Saguet map and this sketch map 14 The New or Daurade Bridge constructed in the twelfth century 15 The Bourcuet-Nau 8 INTRODUCTION 16 Saint-Pierre-Saint-Martin in the parish of the Daurade 17 The Villeneuve Gate in the quarter of the same name in the Bourg 18 The [...] In 1228 the Daurade granted the Hospital of Novellus a stretch of the left bank be- tween the "barbacana pontis novi" and that of the Bazacle Bridge, describ- ing the latter as running from the Grave Hospital to the head of the Bazacle Bridge.25 Because, as seen above, Raymond VI's party had waded the Ga- ronne river in this region, the bridge very likely followed the diagonal path across the rive
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Abbreviations 9
- Maps 9
- Preface 10
- Introduction 16
- A. Intentions 16
- B. Toulouse and the Toulousain 21
- 1. Population, Economy and Geography 26
- A. Demography and trade 26
- B. Expansion and contraction 29
- C. The town's regions 34
- D. City and Bourg 39
- PART ONE: SOCIETY 44
- 2. Regional History 46
- A. Contexts 46
- B. Classes and orders 49
- C. Service and dependency 55
- D. Social differentiation 62
- 3. Townsfolk 65
- A. Evolutions 65
- B. Ministerial dependents 70
- C. Vocabularies and equalities 77
- 4. Dependents 84
- A. Rustics 84
- B. Domestics 93
- C. Jews 96
- D. Condition of life 99
- 5. Nobles 104
- A. Weapons and status 104
- B. Knights and nobles 110
- C. Order definitions 116
- 6. Commoners 122
- A. Bourgeois and workers 122
- B. Style of life 130
- PART TWO: FAMILY 140
- 7. Structure 142
- A. Solidarities and heirs 142
- B. Limiting heirs 147
- C. Minority 150
- D. Majority 153
- 8. Size 161
- A. Housing 161
- B. Family dimensions 171
- 9. Names 175
- A. Nomenclature 175
- B. Surnames 180
- C. Family pride 186
- D. Family corporatism 191
- PART THREE: ECONOMY 194
- 10. Usury 196
- A. History 196
- B. Prohibition 201
- C. Enforcement 207
- 11. Reception of the Law on Usury 213
- A. Casuistry 213
- B. Crusade and heresy 219
- C. Moral rigor 225
- 12. Corporatism 232
- A. Gains and losses 232
- B. Corporate structures 236
- C. Regulated enterprise 240
- PART FOUR: GOVERNMENT 248
- 13. Constitutional Defeat 250
- A. The old constitution 250
- B. Raymond VII 255
- C. Alphonse of Poitiers' victory 261
- 14. Social Defeat 267
- A. Town and country 267
- B. Popular participation 273
- 15. Religion and Government 286
- A. Cathars 286
- B. Jews 294
- Conclusion 302
- A. Summary 302
- B. Religion and freedom's loss 303
- C. The plebs and the prince 306
- D. Radical hope 311
- Appendix One: Family Histories 314
- 1. Arnaldus 314
- 2. Barbaordeus 316
- 3. Carbonellus & Prinaco 319
- 4. Caturcio 330
- 5. Cerdanus 331
- 6. Davinus 333
- 7. Falgario 335
- 8. Marcillo 341
- 9. Najaco 342
- 10. Noerio 345
- 11. Petricola 350
- 12. Podiobuscano 350
- 13. Raissaco 353
- 14. Seillanus 358
- 15. Turribus 362
- 16. Yspania 374
- Appendix Two: Jewish Family Histories 377
- 1. Alacer and his sons 377
- 2. Provincialis and his sons 379
- 3. Ispaniolus and his son Solomon 382
- 4. The brothers Isaac and Moses 383
- Appendix Three: Oath To Maintain the Peace of Meaux-Paris 385
- Appendix Four: Chaptermen and Consuls 402
- Appendix Five: Consuls and Heretics 434
- 1. Heretics in family histories 434
- 2. Consulates containing the names of condemned heretics 435
- Appendix Six: Documents of the Tolosa Family 438
- 1. Dating a family cartulary 438
- 2. A division of an inheritance 440
- Appendix Seven: The Early "Gasalha" Contract 446
- Appendix Eight: A Calendar of Testaments 452
- Appendix Nine: A Calendar of Estates 485
- Documents, Texts and Bibliography 493
- 1. Archival documents and manuscript texts 493
- 2. Published documents and texts 496
- 3. Bibliography of secondary works 499
- Index 508
- A 508
- B 510
- C 513
- D 518
- E 519
- F 520
- G 522
- H 524
- I 524
- J 525
- K 526
- L 526
- M 527
- N 530
- O 531
- P 532
- Q 535
- R 535
- S 538
- T 541
- U 543
- V 543
- W 545
- Y 545