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Caroline M. Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London's role as medieval England's political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and religious cultures that shaped the lives of its inhabitants. This collection of eighteen papers focuses on four themes: crown and city; parish, church, and religious culture; the people of medieval London; and the city's intellectual and cultural world. They represent essential reading on the history of one of the world's greatest cities by its foremost scholar.
Price: £110.00
Pages: 624
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Imprint: Medieval Institute Publications
Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Publication Date:
30 November 2017
ISBN: 9781580442565
Format: Hardcover
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Caroline M. Barron is Emeritus Professor of the History of London at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research relates particularly to the late-medieval history of the City of London, the reign of Richard II, and the history of women. Martha Carlin is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she specializes in urban social life, including correspondence, food, and shopping. Joel T. Rosenthal is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Stony Brook University, New York. He is a specialist in medieval prosopography and English social and family history.
Crown and City 1. The Tyranny of Richard II 2. The Quarrel of Richard II with London, 1392-7 3. London and the Crown, 1451-61 4. The Deposition of Richard II 5. Richard II and London Parish, Church and Religious Culture 6. The Parish Fraternities of Medieval London 7. London and St. Paul's Cathedral in the Later Middle Ages 8. The Travelling Saint: Zita of Lucca and England 9. The Will as Autobiography: The Case of Thomas Salter, Priest The People of Medieval London 10. Richard Whittington, the Man behind the Myth 11. Ralph Holland and the London Radicals: 1438-1444 12. The "Golden Age" of Women in Medieval London 13. The Child in Medieval London: The Legal Evidence 14. Johanna Hill (d. 1441) and Johanna Sturdy (d. c. 1460), Bell-Founders The Intellectual & Cultural World of Medieval London 15. Centres of Conspicuous Consumption: The Aristocratic Townhouse in London, 1200-1500 16. The Expansion of Education in Fifteenth-Century London 17. Chivalry, Pageantry, and Merchant Culture in Medieval London 18. The Political Culture of Medieval London