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The Politics of Fiscal Privilege in Provence, 1530s-1830s
Rafe Blaufarb examines the interwoven problems of taxation and social privilege in this treatment of the contention over fiscal privilege between the seigneurial nobility and the tax-payers of Provence
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Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon
Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Provence. These two registers are a valuable new source for the economic, linguistic, and transportation history of medieval France, offering a window onto the commercial life of Tarascon, a fortified town on the east bank of the Rhône between Avignon and Arles.
William D. Paden discusses the developing fiscal policy of the counts of Provence, for whom the tolls were collected, and the practice and vocabulary of medieval toll-keeping. An afterword considers the toll registers in relation to the poetry of troubadours, arguing that the realism of the registers and the idealism of troubadour poetry overlapped in the world of medieval Tarascon.
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Frommer's easyguide to Provence & the French Riviera
Provides a concise travel guide with information about accommodations, restaurants, historical sites, shopping, and attractions in Provence and the French Riviera.
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Provence
Celebrated by writers from Petrarch to Peter Mayle, Provence's rugged mountains, wild maquis and lavender-filled meadows are world-famous. Historic cities like Arles, Avignon and Aix contain Roman amphitheatres, papal palaces and royal residences, while market towns and picturesque villages maintain age-old traditions of wine producing and agriculture. From the highland towns of Digne and Sisteron to the marshy expanse of the Camargue, Provence encompasses a rich variety of landscapes.Martin Garrett explores a region littered with ancient monuments and medieval castles. Looking at the vibrant dockside ambiance of Marseille and the luminous atmosphere of the Lubéron, he considers how writers like Mistral and Daudet have captured the character of a place and its people. He traces the development of Provence as a Roman outpost, medieval kingdom and modern region of France, revealing through its landmarks the people and events that have shaped its often tumultuous history.Through i.
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Authors, Collators, and Forgers
For the Jews of Avignon and its environs, as for the Jews of western Europe in general, the closing years of the fourteenth century were marked by crisis and calamity. The plague that first arrived in 1347 struck Avignon again in 1372, 1373, 1374, 1382, 1388, 1397, and 1399. In 1391, mobs viciously attacked the Jewish communities of Aragon and Castile--a tragedy that resonated in Provence due to a description sent to the Jews of Avignon from Saragossa by Hasdai Crescas. The Kingdom of France expelled them again in late 1394. As these communities to the north and west suffered, the Jews of Avignon felt their pain and grew increasingly isolated. For Christians during this same period, Avignon was a highly significant city that served as the seat of the Pope during the fourteenth century. Jews living in the city surely felt the ramifications of this lengthy sojourn, which turned Avignon into an international center of political and intellectual life. Here, Roth explores the works of four Jewish intellectuals who lived in or near Avignon at the end of the fourteenth century: Isaac de Lattes, Joseph Kimhi, Eliezer Crescas, and Jacob Salomon.
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Judaism as Philosophy
The studies comprising this volume, most of them appearing for the first time in English, deal with some of the main topics in Maimonides’ philosophy and that of his followers in Provence. At the heart of these topics lies the issue of whether they adopted a completely naturalistic picture of the workings of the world order, or left room for the volitional activity of God in history. These topics include divine law, creation, the Account of the Chariot, prophet and sage, Mosaic prophecy, reasons for the commandments, and prayer. Special attention is paid to three lesser known but highly significant Provençal Jewish thinkers: Moses Ibn Tibbon, Levi ben Avraham, and Nissim ben Moses of Marseille.
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