David M Nicholas

The Growth of the Medieval City

From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first part of David Nicholas's two-volume study of the medieval city, traces the slow regeneration of urban life in the early medieval period. He shows 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 then charts the different types and functions of the medieval city, its interdependence with the surrounding countryside, and its often difficult relations with secular authority. The book concludes with the critical changes of the late thirteenth century in the urban network.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780582299061
• ISBN-10: 0582299063
• Artikelnr.: 24410233

Autorenporträt

David M. Nicholas

Inhaltsangabe

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.