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Medieval Towns

Life in a Late Medieval City: Chester, 1275-1520
by Jane Laughton
In the late medieval period Chester was the most important place in north-western England, serving as administrative centre of the county palatine and as the regional capital. The city was not large but its status was further enhanced by its role as ecclesiastical capital and garrison town. Chesters location ensured close links with Wales and Ireland. This study of Chester is based on a wide range of sources, written and archaeological, and ...
Paperback. Price GB £20.00

Sandwich - The 'Completest Medieval Town in England': A Study of the Town and Port from its Origins to 1600
by Helen Clarke, Sarah Pearson, Mavis Mate and Keith Parfitt, with documentary research by Sheila Sweetinburgh and Bridgett Jones
To the casual visitor of today, Sandwich appears as simply a small inland market town on the bank of a modest river. But locals and historians have long known that in the Middle Ages it was a strategic and commercial seaport of great significance, trading with northern Europe and the Mediterranean and growing prosperous on this business.

The medieval fabric of the town has been preserved to a remarkable extent, but historians and ...
Hardback. Reprinting - orders recorded. Price GB £35.00

Medieval Town Plans
by Paul Hindle
Between the mid 12th and the early 14th centuries the towns of Britain grew both in number and in size. Intended as a practical guide, this concise, well-illustrated book considers the archaeological, documentary and cartographic evidence for medieval town-planning and shows how survivng and lost features can be identified in the modern townscape. Sections focus on town layouts, streets, defences, markets, churches, suburbs and property ...
Paperback. Price GB £6.99

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 GB £22.50

Food, Craft and Status in Medieval Winchester: the Plant and Animal Remains from the Suburbs and City Defences
edited by D.J. Serjeantson and H. Rees
This report publishes and analyses medieval environmental evidence from excavations which took place in the 70s and 80s in extra-mural Winchester. The reports on the faunal remains are particularly full and important ranging from the 10th to the 17th centuries and including a detailed specialist examination of the pathology of the sheep bones. In their discussion of the data the authors draw conclusions about diet and social status, and the ...
Paperback. Price GB £22.00

A History of Lincoln
by Richard Gurnham
A city of national importance during the Middle Ages, and again during the 19th century, Lincoln has been the subject of extensive recent archaeological work (much of it published by Oxbow), which has been taken into account in this well-written new history. Gurnham traces the fortunes of the city from Iron Age settlement through its military role in the Roman period to capital of Anglo-Saxon Lindsey, and onward to the seat of one of the chief ...
Hardback. Price GB £17.99

Newcastle and Gateshead Before 1700
edited by Diana Newton and A.J. Pollard
This fine volume aims not to produce a comprehensive narrative of pre-modern Newcastle and Gateshead, but to gather a series of essays presenting aspects of the two settlements' past from a range of approaches and disciplines. The topics covered include the spectacular economic growth that followed the building of the Norman castle and the halt caused by conflict with Scotland; the rise of the coal trade; the significance of religion and the ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

Scarborough: a History
by Trevor Pearson
The site of a Bronze Age barrow and settlement, and later an impressively sized Roman signal station, Scarborough saw the period of its greatest importance in the Middle Ages, when it became one of the most prosperous of England's northern ports. After a slump in the early modern period it saw a period of renewed importance from the 18th century as a health tourism destination. Trevor Pearson, who has excavated extensively in the town is the ...
Hardback. Price GB £18.99

Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
edited by Albrecht Classen
This weighty volume contains essays from a variety of disciplines which explore how urban space was perceived, how social and cultural contexts were shaped by urban landscapes, and how cities were conceptualised in the medieval world. Albrecht Classen's introduction is subtitled "Historical, mental, cultural and socio-economic investigations" which seems a good summary of the range of approaches and enquiries adopted. Despite the title the focus ...
Hardback. Price GB £150.00

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 ...
Paperback. Price GB £32.95