Edited by Martha Carlin and Joel T. Rosenthal.
Caroline Barron is the foremost scholar of medieval London and she has made her impact through a series of major articles touching the politics, guilds, and people of the City. This collection of eighteen revised and updated papers deal with the Crown and the City; parish, church and religious culture; people of late-medieval London (including Richard Whittington) and the intellectual and cultural world of a city that soon grew into one of the most important in Europe and the world.
Author(s): Caroline M. Barron
Series: Medieval Institute Publications. Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 18
Publisher: Western Michigan University
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 618
City: Kalamazoo
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Introduction
Part I: Crown and City
Chapter 1. The Tyranny of Richard II
Chapter 2. The Quarrel of Richard II with London, 1392–7
Chapter 3. London and the Crown, 1451–61
Chapter 4. The Deposition of Richard II
Chapter 5. Richard II and London
Part II: Parish, Church, and Religious Culture
Chapter 6. The Parish Fraternities of Medieval London
Chapter 7. London and St Paul’s Cathedral in the Later Middle Ages
Chapter 8. The Travelling Saint: Zita of Lucca and England
Chapter 9. The Will as Autobiography: The Case of Thomas Salter, Priest, Died November 1558
Part III: The People of Medieval London
Chapter 10. Richard Whittington: The Man Behind the Myth
Chapter 11. Ralph Holland and the London Radicals, 1438–1444
Chapter 12. The 'Golden Age' of Women in Medieval London
Chapter 13. Johanna Hill (d. 1441) and Johanna Sturdy (d. c. 1460), Bell-Founders
Chapter 14. The Child in Medieval London: The Legal Evidence
Part IV: The Intellectual and Cultural World
Chapter 15. Centres of Conspicuous Consumption: The Aristocratic Townhouse in London, 1200–1550
Chapter 16. The Expansion of Education in Fifteenth-Century London
Chapter 17. Chivalry, Pageantry and Merchant Culture in Medieval London
Chapter 18. The Political Culture of Medieval London
Publications by Caroline M. Barron
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