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Medieval Towns
Books on towns, their layout and organisation, their fortifications, and their administrative and social functions.
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Life in a Late Medieval City: Chester, 1275-1520
by Jane Laughton
This account of late medieval Chester - shire town, regional and ecclesiastical capital, major port, place of craft manufacture and market with an extensive hinterland - is the result of years of detailed research. The medieval historian Dr Jane Laughton draws on her comprehensive knowledge of the documentary sources to paint a vivid picture of urban society. Particular use is made of the city's court rolls, documents that allow the author to ...
Paperback. Price US$40.00
Medieval Town Plans
by Paul Hindle
Most English and Welsh towns were founded or grew rapidly in the later medieval period, in particular between the mid twelfth and early fourteenth centuries. This book begins by giving a brief outline of the great growth in the number and size of towns and outlines the archaeological, documentary and cartographic evidence that is available. It then goes on to relate that evidence to surviving and lost features in the townscape, with the aim of ...
Paperback. Price US$16.00
Medieval London Houses
by John Schofield
A richly illustrated, extensive study of domestic buildings in London from c. 1200 to the Great Fire of 1666. Schofield describes houses and such related buildings as almshouses, taverns, inns, shops, and livery company halls, drawing on evidence from surviving buildings, archaeological excavations, documents, panoramas, drawn surveys and plans, contemporary descriptions, and later engravings and photographs. He presents a comprehensive overview ...
Paperback. Price US$40.00
Villes de Flandre et d'Italie (XIIIe-XVIe siècles): Les enseignements d'une comparaison
edited by E. Lecuppre-Desjardin and E. Crouzet-Pavan
English info text: This book is a study of basic themes such as demographic history, religion, official documents, folk memory and the concept of space to investigate the special features that fashioned the urban identities at each end of what was to be known as the Blue Banana of Europe. Seen against a background of trade relations and economic development, the profiles of the communities studied here become clearer and allow a more tangible ...
Paperback. Price US$94.00
Medieval Towns: The Archaeology of British Towns in their European Setting
by John Schofield and Alan Vince
Archaeologists have shown that towns can claim to be more representative of the nature of society of which they formed part than any other type of site. In towns we are most likely to find archaeological evidence of both long-distance and local trade, of exploitation of natural resources, of specialization and of technological evidence in manufacturing, of social differentiation, of the means of political control, and of the religious aspirations ...
Paperback. Reprinting - orders recorded. Price US$45.00
Town and Country in the Middle Ages: Contrasts, Contacts and Interconnections, 1100-1500
edited by Kate Giles and Christopher Dyer
This book brings together the papers presented at the Society for Medieval Archaeology's spring conference held in York in 2002. The conference set out to reunite urban and rural archaeology. Papers define the differences between town and country, compare the two ways of life, trace the interconnecting links between townspeople and country dwellers, and show how they interacted and influenced one another. Contributors include archaeologists ...
Paperback. Price US$55.00
Circled with Stone: Exeter's City Walls, 1485-1660
by Mark Stoyle
Circled with Stone is the most comprehensive study to date of the fortifications of an early modern English city. The culmination of some twenty years of archaeological and documentary research, it provides a richly detailed portrait of the ancient system of walls, towers and gates which ringed the city of Exeter during the Tudor and early Stuart periods. The book traces the development of the fortifications over time, explores the many purposes ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$95.00, Our Price US$19.98
The Material Culture of the Tradesmen of Newcastle upon Tyne 1545 - 1642: The Durham Probate Record evidence
by Gwendolynn Heley
This book examines the material culture of middling tradesmen living in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1545 and 1642. The analysis is based on wills and inventories selected from the Durham Probate Records pertaining to Newcastle residents. The book has ...
Paperback. Price US$102.50
The Medieval Town Wall of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk: A geological perlustration
by John F. Potter
In the Middle Ages, Great Yarmouth was a town of considerable economic and strategic significance; in 1334, it ranked fourth in English provincial towns in its wealth. This work examines in detail the construction and, more especially, material ...
Paperback. Price US$67.50
Am Anfang war die Stadt: Archäologische Spurensuche im mittelalterlichen Hannoversch Münden
by Andrea Bulla
This examination of the ways in which the infrastructure of medieval German towns evolved is based on the analysis of archaeological remains in the town of Hann. Münden in Lower Saxony. Large scale excavations, carried out between 1996 and 1999, have ...
Hardback. Price US$130.00
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