The Creation of a Community: The City of Wells in the Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9780198204015 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 352 str.

David Gary Shaw

Opis

This is the first scholarly history of the city of Wells in the Middle Ages. David Gary Shaw traces the growth of Wells from a rural manor into the prosperous borough it became by the late twelfth century. Dr Shaw examines the variety of trades which flourished in Wells--including tanning, glove-making, and cloth-manufacture--and analyzes the composition of the burgess community. He also explores the importance of the family, the extent of social mobility, the position of women, and the roles of conviviality on the one hand and religion on the other in shaping communal activity and communal spirit.

Recenzje

Dr Shaw's is a very fine book, analysing the borough community in as much detail as the records permit, providing much information on the town in its own right, but also setting his study in a wider English and European context ... a welcome reminder of the great variety of medieval towns, so often very different from what he calls 'the national model ... of places like Lincoln or Oxford.'