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Town and Country in the Middle Ages: Contrasts, Contacts and Interconnections, 1100-1500

edited by Kate Giles and Christopher Dyer

Taken from a conference of the Society for Medieval Archaeology held at York University in 2002, these fifteen papers, with an introduction and conclusion from the editors, examine the nature of urban and rural life in the Middle Ages. Specifically, contributors examine not only the difference bwteen urban and rural settlements and material culture, and the definition of what constituted a town, but also the nature and frequency of contacts between the two with some looking in particular at the exchange of goods and transmission of ideas. Contents include: plan characteristics of small boroughs and market settlements (T R Slater); urban hinterlands in later medieval England (J A Galloway); meat production and consumption in town and country (O H Creighton); public space in town and village (K Giles). 330p, b/w figs and pls (The Society for Medieval Archaeolofy Monograph 22, Maney 2005)

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