By Adriaan Verhulst
Verhulst examines fifteen cities, normally positioned at the rivers Meuse and Scheldt and alongside the North beach of modern Belgium, Holland and France. He information the effect of political, army, ecclesiastical, financial and social components at the improvement of cities from industry cities to commercial facilities. prepared chronologically, the publication charts the payment and next progress of the cities from the fourth to the 12th centuries. good illustrated with maps and with an entire bibliography, this ebook will end up crucial examining for college students and students of historic and concrete geography.
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Apart from the possible presence of a Roman substratum, there is the question of the continuity of the settlements, particularly through the Wfth and sixth centuries to the seventh, when in a number of cases urban life began again. Indications supporting the actual continuity of habitation through these centuries are very rare, though real in the case of Maastricht, Huy, Tournai and Boulogne. Functional continuity, more speciWcally of certain artisanal activities, is probable only in Huy, namely with regard to the production of ceramics.
This element usually consisted of thick, high walls built at the end of the third or in the fourth century around a civil or military settlement greatly reduced in size, such as in Tongeren, Maastricht, Cambrai, Arras, Tournai, Aardenburg, Oudenburg and Boulogne. Even when these walls still existed in the seventh century, as they usually did, or were wholly or partially visible even much later (for example, in the tenth century in Oudenburg), or were used as foundations for the medieval city wall (as in Boulogne in the thirteenth century), then this still did not necessarily encourage continuity of habitation.
212–14. , pp. 186–7. À Ke´ry, Errichtung des Bistums Arras, pp. 213–17; B. Delmaire, Le dioce`se d’Arras de 1093 au milieu du XIVe sie`cle, I, Arras, 1994, pp. 41–3. Ã Vercauteren, Civitates, p. 188; Ke´ry, Errichtung des Bistums Arras, p. 255–7. 36 The rise of cities in north-west Europe with its Church of Notre Dame, which remained unimportant in this respect because of the absence of a bishop until the foundation of the bishopric of Arras in 1093. Despite the importance of Arras as a late Roman textile centre whose reputation lived on until the sixth century, nothing tangible of this remained in the sixth–seventh centuries.