The Medieval Town in England 1200-1540

ISBN-13: 9780582051287 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 300 str.

Richard Holt; Gervase Rosser

Opis

The aim of this reader - one of a set of four volumes on urban history covering the late 12th to early 20th centuries - is to gather together in an accessible form a number of key contributions to the study of the English medieval town.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Richard Holt, Gervase Rosser