Translator's introduction
Part 1: Paris And Its Inhabitants (Thirteenth To Fifteenth Centuries)
1: Urban space: designers and occupants
Enceinte defined the city
Urban growth to the thirteenth century
Witnesses to these transformations
Ordinary Parisians in urbanization
Big city at the end of the Middle Ages: prosperity and sorrow
2: Street Scenes: marvels and perils of Parisian life
Flattery of arts and letters
Streets of Paris: Life, crime, and punishment
Streets of Paris: Religious spaces and political spaces
Self-sustaining population
Strangers assimilated and individuals distinguished
Parisians between modernity and tradition
Part 2: Kaleidoscope Of Hierarchies
4: World of money: haves and have nots
Parisian great Bourgeoisie
International financiers and royal financial agents
From comfort to survival: the poor and the impoverished
5: World of political power
Paris, seat of the king and his court
Agents of power: procurators, sergents, clerks, and others.
Church grandees in the capital
Ecclesiastical Seigneuries
Religious life set the beat for Paris life
World of the church and the world of charity
Part 3: Of Works And Days
7: In shop and workroom: bringing home the bacon
House as work space and living space
Valets or wage-earning journeymen
Masters, jures, and gardes
Outside the crafts: domestics and unskilled labor
Disturbances in the world of labor
8: Networks of solidarity: obligatory bonds and chosen ties
Family group, more restrained yet less constraining
Ordinary Parisian women in the time of Philip the fair
Voluntary attachments and supportive solidarities: associations and confraternities
Intimacy: the individual and the community
Lodging from palace to cottage
Enclosed space and open space, public and private
Nuts and bolts of daily life
Appendix: Parisian taxpayers in 1297
