First Published 1990 by Longman Group UK Limited.
This book brings together twelve outstanding articles by eminent historians to throw light on the evolution of medieval towns and the lives of their inhabitants. The essays span the period from the dramatic urban expansion of the thirteenth century to the crises in the fifteenth century as a result of plague, population decline and changes in the economy. Throughout the breadth of current debates surrounding the history of urban society is fully explored.
Author(s): Richard Holt, Gervase Rosser (eds.)
Series: Readers in Urban History
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: VIII+292
Acknowledgements vii
1. Introduction: The Engish town in the Middle Ages / Richard Holt and Gervase Rosser 1
2. Towns in English Medieval Society / R. H. Hilton 19
3. The English borough in the thirteenth century / G. H. Martin 29
4. The first half-century of the borough of Stratford-upon-Avon / E. M. Carus-Wilson 49
5. Small town society in England before the Black Death / R. H. Hilton 71
6. Suburban growth / D. J. Keene 97
7. Craftsmen and the economy of London in the fourteenth century / E. M. Veale 120
8. Gloucester in the century after the Black Death / Richard Holt 141
9. Ralph Holland and the London radicals, 1438-1444 / Caroline M. Barron 160
10. The commercial dominance of a medieval provincial oligarchy: Exeter in the late fourteenth century / Maryanne Kowaleski 184
11. The essence of medieval urban communities: The vill of Westminster 1200-1540 / Gervase Rosser 216
12. Ceremony and the citizen: The communal year at Coventry 1450-1550 / Charles Phythian-Adams 238
13. Urban decline in late medieval England / R. B. Dobson 265
Index 287
