Structures familiales et solidarités lignagères à Marseille au XVe siècle : autour de l'ascension sociale des Forbin - article ; n°3 ; vol.41, pg 657-681

Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations - Année 1986 - Volume 41 - Numéro 3 - Pages 657-681
Family Structures and Solidarity in 15th Century Marseille: The Social Rise of the Forbin. C. Maurel.
The micro-history of the Forbin family in Marseille and Provence around the 15th century—as it rose from artisanal honorability, to mercantile success and then on to the ranks of the country gentry—constitutes an exemplary case of family social rising based on commercial enrichment, princely favors, and strong lineal cohesion. Despite the family's recourse to dividing up their inheritance, its absence of communal economic structure, the dispersion of its hearth and burial-grounds, and its appreciable socio-economic heterogeneity, the Forbin 's saga shows how a high degree of political solidarity, as well as a sharing and defense of its collective symbolic inheritance—family name, coat of arms, emblem, and geneological records—were, in the course of the family's rise, the linchpins of the success of this naissant aristocratic house.
25 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.