This book presents the social and occupational structure of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. It combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent families-one knightly and one mercantile-with a detailed cross-sectional urban study of household and occupation.

Jeff Fynn-Paul is university lecturer at Leiden University's Institute for History.

1. Introduction: Work, Status and Society in Urban Catalonia in the Era of the Black Death Part I: Knightly and Burgher Families 2. Knights and Burgers: Contrasting Ways of Life in Manresa and the Manresan Hinterland 3. A Knightly Family of the Bages: The Talamancas, 1300-1450 4. A Manresan Burgher Family: The Sartas, 1300-60 5. The Sarta Family, 1360-1420 Part II: Occupations and Households in Manresa 6. A "Social Geography" of Manresa: Occupation, Wealth and Neighbourhood 7. Households: Rentiers and Merchants 8. Households: Artisans and Women 9. Wage Labourers, Laboratores and the Urban Poor 10. Conclusion