The Medieval Town in England 1200-1540 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Holt, Richard; Rosser, Gervase

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317899808
• Artikelnr.: 49355634

Autorenporträt

Richard Holt, Gervase Rosser

Inhaltsangabe

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.