Analyse factorielle et analyses statistiques classiques : le cas des ordres mendiants dans la France médiévale

Factor analysis and classical statistical analysis : the case of mendiant orders in medieval France The point of departure for this study is Jacques Le Goff's hypothesis that the monasteries of the mendiant orders can serve as a good index for the urbanization of medieval France. A series of specifically statistical analyses (primarily factor analysis of correspondances and adjustments to classical statistical laws) -were applied to 609 mendiant monasteries established on French territory before the year 1450. From this type of analysis, a number of observations -impossible to establish by any other means- emerge on a number of subjects, such as the settlement policy of the orders or the structures of the two urban networks of medieval France.Guerreau Alain. Analyse factorielle et analyses statistiques classiques : le cas des ordres mendiants dans la France médiévale. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 36ᵉ année, N. 5, 1981. pp. 869-912