The medieval town : a reader in English urban history, 1200-1540
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The medieval town : a reader in English urban history, 1200-1540
(Readers in urban history)
Longman, 1990
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The medieval town, 1200-1540
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  Aomori
  Iwate
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  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Description based on 2nd impression 1995
Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book brings together twelve outstanding articles by eminent historians to throw light on the evolution of medieval towns and the lives of their inhabitants. The essays span the period from the dramatic urban expansion of the thirteenth century to the crises in the fifteenth century as a result of plague, population decline and changes in the economy. Throughout the breadth of current debates surrounding the history of urban society is fully explored.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: The English town in the Middle Ages Richard Holt and Gervase Rosser. 2. Towns in English Medieval Society R H Hilton. 3. The English borough in the thirteenth century G H Martin. 4. The first half-century of the borough of Stratford-upon-Avon E M Carus-Wilson. 5. Small town society in England before the Black Death R H Hilton. 6. Suburban growth D J Keane. 7. Craftsmen and the economy of London in the fourteenth century E M Veale. 8. Gloucester in the century after the Black Death Richard Holt. 9. Ralph Holland and the London radicals 1438-1444 Caroline M Barron. 10. The commercial dominance of a medieval provincial oligarchy: Exeter in the late fourteenth century Maryanne Kowaleski. 11. The essence of medieval urban communities: The vill of Westminster 1200-1540 Gervase Rosser. 12. Ceremony and the citizen: The communal year at Coventry 1450-1550 Charles Phythian-Adams. 13. Urban decline in late medieval England R B Dobson. Index.
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