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Author : David Nicholas
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Ghent (Belgium)
ISBN : 9004084886
Author : Nicholas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004625433
Author : David Nicholas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783768877
Author : David Nicholas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317901877
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 : David M Nicholas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317885498
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 : Patrick Lantschner
Publisher : Oxford Historical Monographs
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198734635
This title traces the logic of urban political conflict in late medieval Europe's most heavily urbanised regions, Italy and the Southern Low Countries, revealing how conflict in these regions gave rise to a distinct form of political organisation.
Author : Barbara Hanawalt,Kathryn Reyerson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816623597
Urban ceremonial in the Middle Ages took various forms and served a number of different ends--private, collegial, political, and religious. Broadly construed, urban ceremonial included public functions of multiple sorts. From private, but public, celebrations of births, marriages, and deaths to the grand entries of rulers into cities, the spectacles were designed to impress events on collective memory. - from the Introduction.
Author : Samuel Kline Cohn,Douglas Aiton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107027800
Draws new attention to popular protest in medieval English towns, away from the more frequently studied theme of rural revolt.
Author : Carol Lansing,Edward D. English
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118425121
Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity. Examines changing approaches to the study of medieval Europe, its periodization, and central themes Includes coverage of important questions such as identity and the self, sexuality and gender, emotionality and ethnicity, as well as more traditional topics such as economic and demographic expansion; kingship; and the rise of the West Explores Europe’s understanding of the wider world to place the study of the medieval society in a global context
Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191547447
Since the Middle Ages Europe has been one of the most urbanized continents on the planet and Europe's cities have firmly stamped their imprint on the continent's economic, social, political, and cultural life. This study of European cities and towns from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day looks both at regional trends from across Europe and also at the widely differing fortunes of individual communities on the roller coaster of European urbanization. Taking a wide-angled view of the continent that embraces northern and eastern Europe as well as the city systems of the Mediterranean and western Europe, it addresses important debates ranging from the nature of urban survival in the post-Roman era to the position of the European city in a globalizing world. The book is divided into three parts, dealing with the middle ages, the early modern period, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - with each part containing chapters on urban trends, the urban economy, social developments, cultural life and landscape, and governance. Throughout, the book addresses key questions such as the role of migration, including that of women and ethnic minorities; the functioning of competition and emulation between cities, as well as issues of inter-urban cooperation; the different ways civic leaders have sought to promote urban identity and visibility; the significance of urban autonomy in enabling cities to protect their interests against the state; and not least why European cities and towns over the period have been such pressure cookers for new ideas and creativity, whether economic, political, or cultural.
Author : Linda E. Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136522031
This is the book that teachers of courses on women in the Middle Ages have been wanting to write-or see written-for years. Essays written by specialists in their respective fields cover a range of topics unmatched in depth and breadth by any other introductory text. Depictions of women in literature and art, women in the medieval urban landscape, an the issue of women's relation to definitions of deviance and otherness all receive particular attention. Geographical regions such as the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Near East are fully incorporated into the text, expanding the horizons of medieval studies. The collection is organized thematically and includes all the tools needed to contextualize women in medieval society and culture.
Author : Rosamond McKitterick,C. T. Allmand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0521382963
This volume covers the last century (interpreted broadly) of the traditional western Middle Ages. Often seen as a time of doubt, decline and division, the period is shown here as a period of considerable innovation and development, much of which resulted from a conscious attempt by contemporaries to meet the growing demands of society and to find practical solutions to the social, religious and political problems which beset it. The volume consists of four sections. Part I focuses on both the ideas and other considerations which guided men as they sought good government, and on the practical development of representation. Part II deals with aspects of social and economic development at a time of change and expansion. Part III discusses the importance of the life of the spirit: religion, education and the arts. Moving from the general to the particular, Part IV concerns itself with the history of the countries of Europe, emphasis being placed on the growth of the nation states of the 'early modern' world.
Author : Janna Coomans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108831772
Explores how preventative health practices shaped urban communities, social ties and living environments in the medieval Low Countries.
Author : Walter Simons
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0812218531
The definitive study. . . . A learned, lively, and highly readable book, now the essential introduction to the subject.--Choice
Author : Edwin S. Hunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521461561
A detailed 1994 description and history of one of the most famous companies of the early fourteenth century, the Peruzzi Company.