Desolation of a city : Coventry and the urban crisis of the late Middle Ages
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Desolation of a city : Coventry and the urban crisis of the late Middle Ages
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Cambridge University Press, 1979
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Bibliography: p. 325-337
Includes index
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内容説明
This book is a contribution to both national and local history. Coventry is taken as a richly documented case-study of the crisis which marked the end of the medieval period for many substantial towns. Its demographic and economic decline is followed from the fifteenth century to a dramatic period of short-term crisis between 1518 and 1525. Attention is then focused on the traditional structure of the community: the life-cycles of the citizens are related to the intricate pattern of social positions within a multi-dimensional survey. The author illustrates how the occupants of this structure were depleted by crisis and decline, through devastating depopulation, the attrition of the male labour-force, and the failure of the population to reproduce itself. The results included an uncontrolled insurrectionary riot, the emergence of a radical programme for reform along very early 'Commonwealth' lines in the 1530s and, ultimately, the erosion of the old communal organisation and its ideals.
目次
- Frontispiece
- List of tables
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. An urban panorama
- 2. Desolation of a city
- 3. Anatomy of a city
- 4. An anatomy deformed
- Appendices
- Bibliography of sources cited
- Index.
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