354 Pages
by
Routledge
354 Pages
by
Routledge
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One of the 'Great Twelve' livery companies of the City of London, the Merchant Taylors' Company has been in existence for some seven hundred years. This new history will chart the remarkable story of the Company and its members from its origins until the 1950s, encompassing the lives and achievements of men such as Sir Thomas White (founder of St John's College, Oxford) and the celebrated... Read more
Foreword, Authors' Preface and Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, PART ONE: THE MEDIEVAL COMPANY Chapter one - Origins: Tailors and Linen-Armourers Chapter two - 'Ghostly Treasure': The Fraternity of Stjohn the Baptist 1350-1530Chapter three - The Government of the Medieval CompanyChapter four - The Company and the CraftChapter five - Company, City and Crown 1350-1500PART TWO: REFORMATION TO RESTORATIONChapter six - The Company and the ReformationChapter seven - The Company and Education in the Sixteenth CenturyChapter eight - Daily Life in Elizabethan LondonChapter nine - The Clothworkers, the City and the CrownChapter ten - The Turn of the CenturyChapter eleven - Prelude to the Civil WarChapter twelve - The Company in the Civil WarChapter thirteen - Restoration, Fire and RebuildingChapter fourteen - Troubled TimesPART THREE: THE COMPANY IN THE MODERN WORLDChapter fifteen - The Long Eighteenth CenturyChapter sixteen - The Nineteenth CenturyChapter seventeen - The Twentieth CenturyEpliogueAppendix one - List of Masters, 1300-2003Appendix two - List of Clerks, 1398-2003Appendix three - The Value of Money, 1300-2002Select BibliographyList of Subscribers
Biography
Matthew Davies (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)
