The Growth Of The Medieval City

Author : David M Nicholas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317885498

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The first part of David Nicholas's massive two-volume study of the medieval city, this book is a major achievement in its own right. (It is also fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use it with its equally impressive sequel which is being published simultaneously.) In it, Professor Nicholas traces the slow regeneration of urban life in the early medieval period, showing where and how an urban tradition had survived from late antiquity, and when and why new urban communities began to form where there was no such continuity. He charts the different types and functions of the medieval city, its interdependence with the surrounding countryside, and its often fraught relations with secular authority. The book ends with the critical changes of the late thirteenth century that established an urban network that was strong enough to survive the plagues, famines and wars of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Author : Henri Pirenne
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400851201

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Medieval Cities by Henri Pirenne Pdf

Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century. The consequent interruption of long-distance commerce accelerated the decline of the ancient cities of Europe. Pirenne challenges conventional wisdom by attributing the origins of medieval cities to the revival of trade, tracing their growth from the tenth century to the twelfth. He also describes the important role the middle class played in the development of the modern economic system and modern culture. Featuring a new introduction by Michael McCormick, this Princeton Classics edition of Medieval Cities is essential reading for all students of medieval European history.

Author : David Nicholas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473128602

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The Growth of the Medieval City by David Nicholas Pdf

Author : David Nicholas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473128602

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The Growth of the Medieval City by David Nicholas Pdf

Author : David Nicholas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UCSC:32106011197859

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The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500 by David Nicholas Pdf

That traced the rise of the medieval European city system from late antiquity to the early fourteenth century; this offers a portrait of the fully developed later medieval city in all its richness and complexity.

Author : Henri Pirenne
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691162393

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Medieval Cities by Henri Pirenne Pdf

Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century. The consequent interruption of long-distance commerce accelerated the decline of the ancient cities of Europe. Pirenne challenges conventional wisdom by attributing the origins of medieval cities to the revival of trade, tracing their growth from the tenth century to the twelfth. He also describes the important role the middle class played in the development of the modern economic system and modern culture. Featuring a new introduction by Michael McCormick, this Princeton Classics edition of Medieval Cities is essential reading for all students of medieval European history.

Author : Norman Pounds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216116417

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The Medieval City by Norman Pounds Pdf

An introduction to the life of towns and cities in the medieval period, this book shows how medieval towns grew to become important centers of trade and liberty. Beginning with a look at the Roman Empire's urban legacy, the author delves into urban planning or lack thereof; the urban way of life; the church in the city; city government; urban crafts and urban trade, health, wealth, and welfare; and the city in history. Annotated primary documents like Domesday Book, sketches of street life, and descriptions of fairs and markets bring the period to life, and extended biographical sketches of towns, regions, and city-dwellers provide readers with valuable detail. In addition, 26 maps and illustrations, an annotated bibliography, glossary, and index round out the work. After a long decline in urban life following the fall of the Roman Empire, towns became centers of trade and of liberty during the medieval period. Here, the author describes how, as Europe stabilized after centuries of strife, commerce and the commercial class grew, and urban areas became an important source of revenue into royal coffers. Towns enjoyed various levels of autonomy, and always provided goods and services unavailable in rural areas. Hazards abounded in towns, though. Disease, fire, crime and other hazards raised mortality rates in urban environs. Designed as an introduction to life of towns and cities in the medieval period, eminent historian Norman Pounds brings to life the many pleasures, rewards, and dangers city-dwellers sought and avoided. Beginning with a look at the Roman Empire's urban legacy, Pounds delves into Urban Planning or lack thereof; The Urban Way of Life; The Church in the City; City Government; Urban Crafts and Urban Trade, Health, Wealth, and Welfare; and The City in History. Annotated primary documents like Domesday Book, sketches of street life, and descriptions of fairs and markets bring the period to life, and extended biographical sketches of towns, regions, and city-dwellers provide readers with valuable detail. In addition, 26 maps and illustrations, an annotated bibliography, glossary, and index round out the work.

Author : David M Nicholas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317885504

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The Growth of the Medieval City by David M Nicholas Pdf

The first part of David Nicholas's massive two-volume study of the medieval city, this book is a major achievement in its own right. (It is also fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use it with its equally impressive sequel which is being published simultaneously.) In it, Professor Nicholas traces the slow regeneration of urban life in the early medieval period, showing where and how an urban tradition had survived from late antiquity, and when and why new urban communities began to form where there was no such continuity. He charts the different types and functions of the medieval city, its interdependence with the surrounding countryside, and its often fraught relations with secular authority. The book ends with the critical changes of the late thirteenth century that established an urban network that was strong enough to survive the plagues, famines and wars of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Author : David Nicholas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317901884

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The Later Medieval City by David Nicholas Pdf

The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500, the second part of David Nicholas's ambitious two-volume study of cities and city life in the Middle Ages, fully lives up to its splendid precursor, The Growth of the Medieval City. (Like that volume it is fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use the two as a continuum.) This book covers a much shorter period than the first. That traced the rise of the medieval European city system from late Antiquity to the early fourteenth century; this offers a portrait of the fully developed late medieval city in all its richness and complexity. David Nicholas begins with the economic and demographic realignments of the last two medieval centuries. These fostered urban growth, raising living standards and increasing demand for a growing range of urban manufactures. The hunger for imports and a shortage of coin led to sophisticated credit mechanisms that could only function through large cities. But, if these changes brought new opportunities to the wealthy, they also created a growing problem of urban poverty: violence became endemic in the later medieval city. Moreover, although more rebellions were sparked by taxes than by class conflict, class divisions were deepening. Most cities came to be governed by councils chosen from guild-members, and most guilds were dominated by merchants. The landowning elite that had dominated the early medieval cities of the first volume still retained its prestige, but its wealth was outstripped by the richer merchants; while craftsmen, who had little political influence, were further disadvantaged as access to the guilds became more restricted. The later medieval cities developed permanent bureaucracies providing a huge range of public services, and they were paid for by sophisticated systems of taxation and public borrowing. The survival of their fuller, richer records allow us not only to apply a more statistical approach, but also to get much closer, to the splendours and squalors of everyday city-life than was possible in the earlier volume. The book concludes with a set of vibrant chapters on women and children and religious minorities in the city, on education and culture, and on the tenor of ordinary urban existence. Like its predecessor, this book is massively, and vividly, documented. Its approach is interdisciplinary and comparative, and its examples and case studies are drawn from across Europe: from France, England, Germany, the Low Countries, Iberia and Italy, with briefer reviews of the urban experience elsewhere from Baltic to Balkans. The result is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date study of its multifaceted subject. It is a formidable achievement.

Author : Tom Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199274604

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The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 by Tom Scott Pdf

In this, the first comprehensive study of city-states in medieval Europe, Tom Scott analyzes reasons for cities' aquisitions of territory and how they were governed. He argues that city-states did not wither after 1500, but survived by transformation and adaption.

Author : Miri Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481236

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Cities of Strangers by Miri Rubin Pdf

Explores how medieval towns and cities received newcomers, and the process by which these 'strangers' became 'neighbours' between 1000 and 1500.

Author : Howard Saalman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9080033200

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Medieval Cities by Howard Saalman Pdf

Author : Henri Pirenne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : OCLC:1110870588

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Medieval Cities by Henri Pirenne Pdf

Author : Nigel Baker,Richard Holt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351876520

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Urban Growth and the Medieval Church by Nigel Baker,Richard Holt Pdf

It has long been recognised that the Church played a major role in the development of towns and cities from the earliest times, a fact attested to by the prominence and number of ecclesiastical buildings that still dominate many urban areas. Yet despite this physical evidence, and the work of archaeologists and historians, many important aspects of the early stages of urbanization in England are still poorly understood. Not least, there are many unanswered questions concerning the processes by which the larger towns emerged as planned settlements during the pre-Conquest centuries. Whilst the commitment of the Wessex kings is recognized, questions remain concerning the participation of the Church in this process. Likewise, our understanding of the Church's influence in the later development of towns is not yet fully developed. Many intriguing questions remain concerning such issues as the founding of parish churches and their boundaries, and the extent to which the Church, as a major landowner, helped shape the evolving identity of towns and their suburbs. It is questions such as these that this volume sets out to answer. Employing a wealth of historical and archaeological evidence, two key towns - Gloucester and Worcester - are closely examined in order to build up a picture of their respective developments throughout the medieval period. Through this multi-disciplinary and comparative approach, a picture begins to emerge the Church's role in helping to shape not only the spiritual, but also the social, economic and cultural development of the urban environment.

Author : Richard Holt,Gervase Rosser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317899815

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The Medieval Town in England 1200-1540 by Richard Holt,Gervase Rosser Pdf

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.