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Medieval Towns

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 ...
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Medieval Towns: The Archaeology of British Towns in their European Setting
by John Schofield and Alan Vince
Oxbow says: This classic archaeological study of medieval British towns has now been expanded by a third to incorporate results from recent surveys and fieldwork. Based on the discoveries of urban archaeological teams over the last 30 years, this book presents an up-to-date synthesis of our knowledge of the medieval town, and urban and spatial interactions in Britain between the 11th and 16th centuries. Each chapter is devoted to a ...
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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 ...
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Circled with Stone: Exeter's City Walls, 1485-1660
by Mark Stoyle
In the early modern period Exeter was a wealthy, thriving city and trade centre located in a strategic position in the south-west, factors which also made it vulnerable to attack. Between 1485 and 1600 Exeter saw five major sieges and several smaller invasions and it is no surprise that the fortifications that had surrounded the city since the Roman period were improved and strengthened. This book tells the history of these defences in the Tudor ...
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Town and Country in England: Frameworks for Archaeological Research
by Dominic Perring
The relationship between towns, or urban centers, and the countryside around them is a complex one. Beneath the striking cover of this book lies the results of a research project that promotes new ways of thinking about, and investigating, this relationship. The Urban Hinterlands Project of the Universities of Leicester and York (1997-8) sought to investigate the social and economic dependencies between town and country and sees the latter as ...
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The First General Entry Book of the City of Salisbury, 1387-1452
edited by David R. Carr
Contains records of the meetings of the citizens of Salisbury, alongside notes and memoranda, and sheds important light on the social and economic life of the city. The predominantly Latin text is translated into modern English. 316p (Wiltshire Record Society 2001)
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The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages
selected sources translated and annotated by Trevor Dean
More than one hundred documents providing evidence or comment on urban life in Italy are presented here in English translation. Through taking a wide geographical and chronological approach, Trevor Dean aims to provide a much more varied and perhaps more realistic picture of the towns and cities across the whole of Italy during the 13th and 14th centuries. The documents range from chronicles, to statute-laws, from records of trials, taxation, ...
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English and French Towns in Feudal Society
by R H Hilton
This comparative study of the role of English and French towns in feudal society in the middle ages challenges traditional views of the urban character of medieval towns and takes issue with the perception that they were the harpinger of capitalism. Comparisons are made between the feudal presence within the towns of both coutnries, and between their urban social structures. Conflicts arising from urban demands for freedom and autonomy are ...
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Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter
by Maryanne Kowaleski
Focusing on Exeter, and on how it served as an important link in a marketing chain that connected local, regional and overseas trade, this book examines the vital role of market towns in the medieval economy. Though small by contemporary standards, Exeter was the largest town in south-western England and had long played a central function in the marketing hierarchy of the region. Kowaleski draws on biographies of traders, buyers, and sellers, as ...
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Townlife in Fourteenth Century Scotland
by Elizabeth Ewan
Using the latest material from recent archaeological discoveries as well as new research from documentary sources, this book gives a complete picture of Scottish medieval townlife. It looks in particular at the conditions of life, government, property-holding, trade and industry, the sense of community and the place of the burgh within the wider realm of Scotland. It emphasises the close relationship between burgh and countryside and the active ...
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