Caroline M. Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London's role as medieval England's political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and religious cultures that shaped the lives of its inhabitants. This collection of eighteen papers focuses on four themes: crown and city; parish, church, and religious culture; the people of medieval London; and the city's intellectual and cultural world. They represent essential reading on the history of one of the world's greatest cities by its foremost scholar.
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| Introduction |
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Chapter 1 The Tyranny of Richard II |
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Chapter 2 The Quarrel of Richard II with London, 1392--7 |
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Chapter 3 London and the Crown, 1451--61 |
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Chapter 4 The Deposition of Richard II |
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Chapter 5 Richard II and London |
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Part II Parish, Church, and Religious Culture |
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Chapter 6 The Parish Fraternities of Medieval London |
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Chapter 7 London and St. Paul's Cathedral in the Later Middle Ages |
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Chapter 8 The Travelling Saint: Zita of Lucca and England |
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Chapter 9 The Will as Autobiography: The Case of Thomas Salter, Priest, Died November 1558 |
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Part III The People of Medieval London |
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Chapter 10 Richard Whittington: The Man Behind the Myth |
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Chapter 11 Ralph Holland and the London Radicals, 1438--1444 |
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Chapter 12 The `Golden Age' of Women in Medieval London |
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Chapter 13 Johanna Hill (d. 1441) and Johanna Sturdy (d. c. 1460), Bell-Founders |
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Chapter 14 The Child in Medieval London: The Legal Evidence |
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Part IV The Intellectual and Cultural World |
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Chapter 15 Centres of Conspicuous Consumption: The Aristocratic Townhouse in London, 1200--1550 |
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Chapter 16 The Expansion of Education in Fifteenth-Century London |
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Chapter 17 Chivalry, Pageantry and Merchant Culture in Medieval London |
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Chapter 18 The Political Culture of Medieval London |
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Caroline M. Barron is Emeritus Professor of the History of London at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research relates particularly to the late-medieval history of the City of London, the reign of Richard II, and the history of women. Martha Carlin is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she specializes in urban social life, including correspondence, food, and shopping. Joel T. Rosenthal is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Stony Brook University, New York. He is a specialist in medieval prosopography and English social and family history.
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