The English Medieval Town: A Reader in English Urban History, 1200-1540

✍ Scribed by Holt, Richard(Editor)

• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Series: Readers in Urban History
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This series on the towns and cities of Britain provides an introduction to the research in this field.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
1. Introduction: The Engish town in the Middle Ages......Page 10
2. Towns in English Medieval Society......Page 28
3. The English borough in the thirteenth century......Page 38
4. The first half-century of the borough of Stratford-upon-Avon......Page 58
5. Small town society in England before the Black Death......Page 80
6. Suburban growth......Page 106
7. Craftsmen and the economy of London in the fourteenth century......Page 129
8. Gloucester in the century after the Black Death......Page 150
9. Ralph Holland and the London radicals, 1438-1444......Page 169
10. The commercial dominance of a medieval provincial oligarchy: Exeter in the late fourteenth century......Page 193
11. The essence of medieval urban communities: The vill of Westminster 1200-1540......Page 225
12. Ceremony and the citizen: The communal year at Coventry 1450-1550......Page 247
13. Urban decline in late medieval England......Page 274
Index......Page 296