Towns And Local Communities in Medieval And Early Modern England

by Palliser,David M.

• ISBN13: 9780860789741
• ISBN10: 0860789748
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Professor Palliser focuses here on towns in England in the centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Tudor period, on which he is an acknowledged authority. Urban topography, archaeology, economy, society and politics are all brought under review, and particular attention is given to relationships between towns and the Crown, to the evidence for migration into towns, and to the vexed question of urban fortunes in the 15th and 16th centuries. Two essays set urban history in a broader framework by considering recent work on town and village formation and on the development of parishes. The collection includes two hitherto unpublished studies and is introduced and put in context by a new survey of English towns from the 7th to the 16th centuries.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction: the origins and growth of English towns	15	(9)
Local Communities
Town and village formation in medieval England	24	(1)
The English parish in perspective	24	(1)
Archaeology And Topography
The archaeology of British towns, 1066--1530	25	(95)
Town defences in medieval England and Wales	120	(25)
Towns And Power
Towns and the English state, 1066--1500	145
Towns and the Crown in England: the counties and the county towns	13	(173)
Late Medieval Society
The role of minorities and immigrants in English medieval towns	186
Urban society	149
Civic mentality and the environment in Tudor York	115	(8)
A regional capital as magnet: immigrants to York, 1477--1566	123	(2)
Urban Decline?
A crisis in English towns? The case of York, 1460--1640	125
Urban decay revisited	21
Index	7