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Author : David M Nicholas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131788549X
Total Pages : 379 pages
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Download or read book The Growth of the Medieval City written by David M Nicholas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1317901878
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Later Medieval City written by David Nicholas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nicholas Boyarsky
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Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Town Planning written by Nicholas Boyarsky and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 444 pages
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Download or read book Handbook for British and Irish Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-stop, truly comprehensive, dedicated and reliable sourcebook for archaeology.

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Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architectural Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1977-07 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Public Archives of Canada. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1174 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Archives Library written by Public Archives of Canada. Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John F. Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Bibliography of Building Conservation written by John F. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Nicholas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500 written by David Nicholas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Huxley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geographical Magazine written by Michael Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 19 - include a separate section called GM; news and reviews.

Author : Albert John Walford
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ISBN 13 : 9780853655640
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walford's Guide to Reference Material written by Albert John Walford and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: