Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe: The Social and Political Order of Peripheral Urban Communities from the Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries

by Stevens Towns on Edge Medi Euro Bamon C and Stevens

In the later Middle Ages a European 'core' of culturally and administratively sophisticated societies with rapidly growing populations, on an axis from England to Italy, colonised the European 'periphery'. In northern Europe this periphery included Wales and Ireland, as colonised by the English, and Prussia and Livonia, as colonised (mainly) by Germanic and Nordic peoples. A key tool of colonisation was the chartered town, giving citizens distinguishing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197267300
• ISBN13: 9780197267301
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"