Desolation of a City: Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages

by Charles Phythian-Adams

This book is a contribution to both national and local history. Coventry is taken as a richly documented case-study of the crisis which marked the end of the medieval period for many substantial towns. Its demographic and economic decline is followed from the fifteenth century to a dramatic period of short-term crisis between 1518 and 1525. Attention is then focused on the traditional structure of the community: the life-cycles of the citizens are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521525004
• ISBN13: 9780521525008
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"