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Society and Government at Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars

1997

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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Authors

John Hine Mundy

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [476]-489) and index
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CaOOCEL
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944/.862
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21
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Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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ISBN
9781771101783 0888441290
LCCN
DC801.T726
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M83 1997eb
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CaOTU
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1 electronic text (xiii, 528 p.)
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)thg00604669 (OCoLC)431564564 (CaOOCEL)420521
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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NLC

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