Miri Rubin

Cities of Strangers

Making Lives in Medieval Europe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores how medieval towns and cities received newcomers, and the process by which these 'strangers' became 'neighbours' between 1000 and 1500.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781108481236
• ISBN-10: 110848123X
• Artikelnr.: 58815683

Autorenporträt

Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, where she specialises in European history between the eleventh and sixteenth-centuries. She is the author of, most recently, Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (2009), The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages (2005) and The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction (2014). She has made numerous media appearances including the radio programmes In Our Time and Making History for BBC Radio 4.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cities and their strangers
2. Strangers into neighbours
3. Jews: familiar strangers
4. Women: sometimes strangers in their cities
Conclusion.