The essays collected in this volume identify and analyse the presence of immigrants in late medieval England. Drawing on unique evidence from the alien subsidies collected in England between 1440 and 1487 and other newly accessible archival resources, and deploying a wide range of historical and cultural methods, they reveal the considerable contribution of foreign-born people to the economy, society and culture of England in the age of the Black Death, the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses.
Author(s): W. Mark Ormrod, Nicola McDonald, Craig Taylor
Series: Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), 42
Publisher: Brepols
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 236
City: Turnhout
List of abbreviations vii
List of illustrations ix
Preface xi
I. Contexts
W. Mark Ormrod and Jonathan Mackman / Resident Aliens in Later Medieval England: Sources, Contexts, and Debates 3
J. L. Bolton / London and the Anti-Alien Legislation of 1439–40 33
II. Immigrant Groups in England
Sarah Rees Jones / Scots in the North of England: The First Alien Subsidy, 1440–43 51
Peter Fleming / Icelanders in England in the Fifteenth Century 77
Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli and Jessica Lutkin / Perception, Identity, and Culture: The Italian Communities in Fifteenth-Century London and Southampton Revisited 89
Alan Kissane and Jonathan Mackman / Aliens and the Law in Late Medieval Lincolnshire 105
Christian D. Liddy and Bart Lambert / The Civic Franchise and the Regulation of Aliens in Great Yarmouth, c. 1430 – c. 1490 125
III. The Alien Experience
Christopher Linsley / The French in Fifteenth-Century England: Enmity, Ubiquity, and Perception 147
Maryanne Kowaleski / The Assimilation of Foreigners in Late Medieval Exeter: A Prosopographical Analysis 163
Andrea Ruddick / Immigrants and Intermarriage in Late Medieval England 181
Bibliography 201
