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A full colour map showing London in about 1520 - its many churches,
monasteries, legal inns, guild halls, and a large number of
substantial private houses, in the context of the streets and
alleyways that survived the Great Fire and can still be discovered.
Dominating the city are the Tower of London in the east, the old St
Paul's Cathedral in the west and London Bridge in the south. The
city was largely contained within its medieval walls and ditches
but shows signs of spilling out into the great metropolis it was
destined to be. This is a second edition of a map first published
in 2018, incorporating changes to the map as new information has
become available. The map has been the Historic Towns Trust's
number one best seller since publication and has been very well
received. The new edition has a revised cover and illustrations.
A full colour map showing London about 1270 to 1300 - its walls and
gates, parish churches, early monasteries and hospitals, and a
growing number of private houses. The city's streets and alleyways
had been established. Dominating London are the Tower of London in
the east, the old St Paul's Cathedral in the west and London Bridge
in the south. Up-river in Westminster, the abbey and the royal
palace had been well established, and the great Westminster Hall is
very evident. London's playground in Southwark was beginning to
grow.
This innovative work of social history is about the burial of the dead, and suggests why it is such an important historical issue. Vanessa Harding focuses on the turbulent worlds of early modern London and Paris, and makes use of rich contemporary documentation to compare and contrast their experience of dealing with the dead, profoundly questioned by the impact of the Reformation. Dr. Harding shows the over-arching importance of place and location, and of an urban social setting in which consumption and display were manifest everywhere, in shaping funeral ritual.
This 2002 book is an exploration in social history, showing how the
practices surrounding death and burial can illumine urban culture
and experience. Vanessa Harding focuses on the crowded and
turbulent worlds of early modern London and Paris, and makes rich
use of contemporary documentation to compare and contrast their
experience of dealing with the dead. The two cities shared many of
the problems and pressures of urban life, including high mortality
rates and a tradition of Christian burial and there are many
similarities in their responses to death. The treatment of the dead
reveals the communities' preoccupation with the use of space,
control of the physical environment and the ordering of society and
social behaviour.
The rulers of London in the late middle ages sought to safeguard
the future of their important river crossing by placing its
administration in the hands of a specially created institution. By
the mid-fourteenth century the "BridgeHouse", as it became known,
had been endowed with a large portfolio of properties which
provided the bulk of the revenue needed for the frequent, and often
urgent, repairs to London Bridge's structure: as many as 130 shops
stoodon the bridge itself. As well as providing information on the
technicalities of bridge-building or wider issues concerning urban
crafts and productive processes, the accounts and rentals from the
institution's archive provide useful snapshots of the bridge at
various points in its often turbulent history.
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