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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 March 2008
      21 December 2000
      ISBN:
      9781139053754
      9780521444613
      9781108716116
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521444613
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.72kg, 894 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.38kg, 894 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Geography, British History: General Interest, Historical Geography, History
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - British & European History
      Series:
      The Cambridge Urban History of Britain
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    Subjects:
    Geography, British History: General Interest, Historical Geography, History
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - British & European History
    Series:
    The Cambridge Urban History of Britain
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    The first volume of The Cambridge Urban History of Britain surveys the history of British towns from their post-Roman origins in the seventh century down to the sixteenth century. It provides the first ever detailed overview of the course of medieval urban development, and draws on archaeological and architectural as well as historical sources. The volume combines thematic analysis with regional and national surveys, with full coverage of developments in England, Scotland and Wales. The international team of contributors represent historical, geographical and archaeological expertise, and the whole marks a major step forward in the understanding of the medieval British town. Part I examines historiographical tradition and the origins of British towns. Parts II and III focus on the early and later medieval periods respectively, and Part IV contains a sequence of systematic regional surveys. Extensively illustrated, the volume also contains ranking lists of towns and an extensive bibliography.

    Reviews

    ‘… the volumes supply the first truly urban country with a fitting and comprehensive history … a coherent and systematic survey which is both scholarly and accessible … some genuinely new and innovative investigations which fill real gaps in our knowledge … essential reading to all interested in the history of medieval Britain and will undoubtedly inspire new research into towns as institutions and as social and economic communities.’

    Source: The Ricardian

    ‘… a glittering collection of essays …’.

    Source: History

    ‘… not only immensely informative but also very readable … this is urban history with a human face … In its breadth and its depth this volume is a spectacular achievement. It looks set to provide the stimulus for further research into the urban history of medieval Britain for a long time to come.’

    Source: The Economic History Review

    ‘On the whole few collected volumes contain so much good scholarship as does The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, and it will be, no doubt, the starting-point for any future research in the field of British urban history.’

    Source: London Journal

    ‘This fine volume will undoubtedly be regarded for many years to come as the authoritative survey of its subject.’

    Barbara Harvey

    ‘ … a splendid book which enables the reader to share in the historic urban landscape.’

    Source: Society for Landscape Studies

    'All the contributors are authoritative and the whole massive book is superbly orchestrated.'

    Source: Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature

    ‘… splendid collection, which is at once an excellent urban history of Britain and a history of Britain from the urban perspective … as well as important, interesting as well as judicious, thoughtful as well as scholarly. the volumes bulge with knowledge … alongside this must be recorded the sheer exhilaration of reading so much first-rate scholarship … urban history and these volumes will be dome a disservice if they are classified in a misleading narrow fashion.’

    Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

    'This is an ambitious and rewarding work encompassing the research of a generation of urban historians, archaeologists, geographers, and architects.'

    Source: Journal of Social History

    '… the volume offers a feast to the attentive reader...the individual chapters seem to be in conversation with one another. Moreover, each and every one of the chapters summarizes the most up-to-date scholarship, whether on English, Scottish, or Welsh settlements...the extensive treatment of the Church and its role in English cultural, economic, and social life is one of the finest features of the book.'

    Source: Journal of Interdisciplinary History

    'This magnificent volume is a sound and thoughtful foundation for medieval urban studies, deserving a place on any historian's shelves.'

    Source: Medieval Prosopography

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