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Medieval Towns

Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 400-1500: Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space
edited by Caroline Goodson, Anne E. Lester and Carol Symes
Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus, England, the territories of medieval Francia, Flanders, the Low Countries, Italy and Germany. Together, the volume's contributors move beyond attempts to define 'the city' in purely legal, economic or religious terms. Instead, they ...
Hardback. Price GB £70.00

Entwicklung Prenzlaus vom 10. Jh. bis 1722
by Matthias Schulz
This volume compiles and analyses the evidence from sixty years of excavations at the medieval town of Prenzlau. The catalogue contains 444 sites outside and 554 insude the town, among them 5950 settlement features, 1108 graves and 146 single finds. This data is used to build a picture of the town's development from the first Slavic farmsteads, through the construction of a planned settlement in the twelfth century and down to the first accurate ...
Paperback. Price GB £40.00

Ledbury: People and Parish Before the Reformation
by Sylvia Pinches
This detailed study of a small medieval town in Herefordshire is the result of a four year collaborative project which draws on a range of research methods to reconstruct the contours of its physical and economic development, and something of the lives of its inhabitants. Opening chapters set the scene looking at the landscape and its occupants from earliest times to Anglo-Saxon settlement. From this time the picture becomes more detailed, with ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.99

Making a Medieval Town: Patterns of Early Medieval Urbanization
edited by Andrzej Buko and Mike McCarthy
These papers present new archaeological perspectives on the early development of towns across Europe, with a particular focus on central and eastern regions. Authors consider research strategies, as well as providing overviews of current work in a range of countries including Italy, Norway, Poland and eastern Europe in general. Specific case studies look at Carlisle, Cracow, Kalisz, and Madinat Ilbira in al-Andalus. 222p b/w illus (Institute ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00

Archaeology of Medieval Towns in the Baltic and North Sea Area
edited by Niels Engberg, Anne Norgaard Jorgensen, Jakob Kieffer-Olsen, Per Kristian Madsen and Christian Radtke
14 papers exploring medieval towns in Scandinavia and the north sea area. Six deal with aspects of changes in the Medieval town, interactions in the physical and social development of the town, including infrastructure, structural changes and continuity/discontinuity. Four further papers concern town functions both on a local, regional and international level, focusing on social structures, the role of the aristocracy and the interpretation of ...
Price GB £26.00

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

Land, Power and Society in Medieval Castile: A Study of Behetria Lordship
edited by Cristina Jular Perez-Alfaro and Carlos Estepa Diez
This work offers an up-to-date discussion of medieval Castilian lordship and social relations, approached through an analysis of behetría lordship, a power-structure of fundamental importance in medieval Castile. This collection of essays focuses less on legal intricacies than on deeper social, territorial, and political issues, which are also examined in relation to other better-known forms of lordship exercised both within Castile and ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00

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