Desolation of a City : Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages Paperback / softback
by Charles (University of Leicester) Phythian-Adams
Part of the Past and Present Publications series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 related to the intricate pattern of social positions within a multi-dimensional survey.
The author illustrates how the occupants of this structure were depleted by crisis and decline, through devastating depopulation, the attrition of the male labour-force, and the failure of the population to reproduce itself.
The results included an uncontrolled insurrectionary riot, the emergence of a radical programme for reform along very early 'Commonwealth' lines in the 1530s and, ultimately, the erosion of the old communal organisation and its ideals.
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/06/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521525008
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/06/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521525008
