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Medieval Towns

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 ...
Hardback. Price GB £70.00

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 ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.95

At Europe's Borders: Medieval Towns in the Romanian Principalities
by Laurentiu Radvan
This ambitious work focuses on the emergence and the development of medieval towns in the two Romanian principalities of South-Eastern Europe, Wallachia and Moldavia, from their earliest days, in the 13th century, up to the 16th. It is the only work of ...
Hardback. Price GB £175.00

The Rise of Medieval Towns and States in East Central Europe: Early Medieval Centres as Social and Economic Systems
by Jiri Machacek
This book is a contribution to efforts to understand the transformation that took place across the European continent, and in particular East Central Europe, during the second half of the first millennium. Its goal is to draw conclusions primarily on the ...
Hardback. Price GB £160.00

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 GB £41.00

The Medieval Town Wall of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk: A geological perlustration
by John F. Potter
This study takes a geological approach to the study of the flint walls of Great Yarmouth, generally considered to have been constructed when the town was at the height of its power and wealth in the fourteenth century. It shows that in fact the ...
Paperback. Price GB £27.00

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 GB £56.00

The Affinities and Antecedents of Medieval Settlement: Topographical perspectives from three of the Somerset hundreds
by Nick Corcos
This meticulous survey of the origins of medieval rural settlements is based on an in-depth analysis of topographical and archaeological evidence and, as such, varies from more usual document-based analyses. Focusing on evidence from three contrasting ...
Paperback. Price GB £33.00

Europe at Home: Family and Material Culture 1500-1800
by Rafaella Sarti
A detailed insight into the way people lived in the late Medieval and early modern period. Sarti looks at the material possessions of people from all classes and backgrounds, and at family life, at the relationships between children, husbands and wives, ...
Hardback. Price GB £19.95

Urban Diversity: Archaeology in the Swedish Province of Ostergotland
edited by Richard Hedvall
With its six medieval towns, the province of Östergötland offers a large degree of urban diversity, from early medieval market places and assembly sites, central places for the new Christian religion and the nascent royal power, to towns with ...
Paperback. Price GB £10.99