By D. M. Palliser (ed.)
The 1st quantity of The Cambridge city background surveys the background of British cities from their post-Roman origins within the 7th century all the way down to the 16th century. It presents the 1st particular evaluation of the process medieval city improvement, and attracts on archaeological and architectural in addition to ancient assets. the amount combines thematic research with nearby and nationwide surveys, with complete insurance of advancements in England, Scotland and Wales, and the entire represents an immense leap forward within the knowing of the medieval British city.
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Parts II and III take a broadly chronological approach, dividing the nine centuries or so under discussion, very unequally, in the decades either side of , for reasons already stated: where we have to distinguish the two broad periods, we use ‘early middle ages’ for the period before , and ‘later middle ages’ for the fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. g. , The Scottish Medieval Town, pp. –. R. R. Davies, Conquest, Coexistence, and Change (Oxford, ), pp. , . Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Introduction followed successively by accounts of towns in a political, social and economic context (in the broad sense of those terms); by surveys of the interlocking themes of culture and the Church; by discussion of the physical fabric or townscape; and then by a series of three or four chapters considering the different levels and types of town from London – then as later the largest British town – to the smallest of market towns.
De W. , ). M. , Records of the Borough of Leicester ([London], –); R. R. , Calendar of Letter Books of the City of London (London, –). E. A. Lewis, The Mediæval Boroughs of Snowdonia (London, ); A. , British Borough Charters – (Cambridge, ); A. Ballard and J. , British Borough Charters – (Cambridge, ). For a judicious appraisal of Tait and Stephenson, see Martin and McIntyre, Bibliography, pp. xxxvi–xxxvii. G. H. , The Medieval Town, p. . M. Weinbaum, The Incorporation of Boroughs (Manchester, ); M.
9 However, a geographical limitation must be stressed in here introducing a work covering Britain as a whole. None of Wacher’s and Burnham’s Roman towns lay north of Hadrian’s Wall, and only two in Wales. In the rest of Britain the Iron Age pattern of settlement continued to evolve without the injection of Mediterranean city life. Even within the urbanised part of Britannia, a caveat must be entered against identifying Roman towns too closely with their medieval and modern successors. Their sites may often have been the same; they may often have been centred round a group of public buildings in the same way, and laid out in the same way, as many medieval towns; but their chief functions may have been rather different.