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'One of the pioneer volumes in the handsomely produced new Institute of Historical Research Conference series, this book serves as a fitting tribute to one of the most influential urban historians of our time.' - Ian Archer, Urban History, May 2013.
Contents
I. Markets, hinterlands and environments
1 Feeding another city – provisioning Dublin in the later middle ages
Margaret Murphy
2 Did peasants need markets and towns in late medieval England?
Christopher Dyer
3 The proliferation of markets revisited
Richard Britnell
4 ‘Tempests of weather and great abundance of water’: the flooding of the Barking marshes in the later middle ages
James A. Galloway
II. Luxury, innovation and skill
5 A taste for the Orient? Cosmopolitan demand for ‘exotic’ durable consumables in late medieval Bruges
Peter Stabel
6 Hartlib’s world
Rob Iliffe
7 Hiding in the forest … The Gilberts’ rural scientific instrument manufactory
Anita McConnell
III. Suburbs, neighbourhoods and communities
8 Houses and households in Cheapside c.1500–1550
Vanessa Harding
9 ‘The poore lost a good Frend and the parish a good Neighbour’: the lives of the poor and their supporters in London’s eastern suburb, c.1583–c.1679
Philip Baker and Mark Merry
10 Between sea and city: portable communities in late medieval London and Bruges
Erik Spindler
11 The kindness of strangers: charitable giving in the community of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Catherine Wright
IV. Governance
12 Londoners and the court of common pleas in the fifteenth century
Matthew Frank Stevens
13 Crown, city and guild in late medieval London
Matthew Davies
14 Urban governments and their citizens in early modern Europe
Maarten Prak
15 Victoria Street in theory and practice: scenes from the governmentality of nineteenth-century London
Richard Dennis
16 Converging lines, dissecting circles: railways and the socialist ideal in London and Paris at the turn of the twentieth century
Carlos López Galviz
Bibliography of the published works of Derek Keene
Compiled by Olwen Myhill