1st Edition
The Growth of the Medieval City From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century
By David M Nicholas
Copyright 1997
432 Pages
by
Routledge
432 Pages
by
Routledge
432 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Part One: Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
1. The Urban Legacy of Antiquity.
2. Suburbanisation and Deurbanisation in Merovingian and Carolingian Gaul 500-830.
3.Challenge and Response: The Scandinavian and Muslim Attacks and the Revival of Urban Life in the Medieval West.
Part Two: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
4. From Seigniorial to Economic Urbanisation: Landowning, Commerce and Industry in the Cities of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.
5. Urban Law and Government in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.
Part Three: The Thirteenth Century and the Crisis of Medieval Urbanisation c. 1190-1270.
6.The Expansion of the Cities in the Thirteenth Century.
7. The North European Cities in the Thirteenth Century.
8. The Commercial Cities of Thirteenth Century Italy Under Popular Oligarchies. Part Four: A Half Century of Crisis
9. Merchant as Craftsman, Magnate as Guildsman. The Transformation of the Medieval City 1270-1325. Bibliography.
Index.
1. The Urban Legacy of Antiquity.
2. Suburbanisation and Deurbanisation in Merovingian and Carolingian Gaul 500-830.
3.Challenge and Response: The Scandinavian and Muslim Attacks and the Revival of Urban Life in the Medieval West.
Part Two: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
4. From Seigniorial to Economic Urbanisation: Landowning, Commerce and Industry in the Cities of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.
5. Urban Law and Government in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.
Part Three: The Thirteenth Century and the Crisis of Medieval Urbanisation c. 1190-1270.
6.The Expansion of the Cities in the Thirteenth Century.
7. The North European Cities in the Thirteenth Century.
8. The Commercial Cities of Thirteenth Century Italy Under Popular Oligarchies. Part Four: A Half Century of Crisis
9. Merchant as Craftsman, Magnate as Guildsman. The Transformation of the Medieval City 1270-1325. Bibliography.
Index.
Biography
David M. Nicholas
