The first part of David Nicholas's massive two-volume study of
the medieval city, this book is a major achievement in its own
right. (It is also fully self-sufficient, though many readers will
want to use it with its equally impressive sequel which is being
published simultaneously.) In it, Professor Nicholas traces the
slow regeneration of urban life in the early medieval period,
showing where and how an urban tradition had survived from late
antiquity, and when and why new urban communities began to form
where there was no such continuity. He charts the different types
and functions of the medieval city, its interdependence with the
surrounding countryside, and its often fraught relations with
secular authority. The book ends with the critical changes of the
late thirteenth century that established an urban network that was
strong enough to survive the plagues, famines and wars of the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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