Medieval London : from commune to capital / Gwyn A. Williams.

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Williams, Gwyn A

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge library editions. City : history of the city.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 377 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781135685003
1135685002
9780203717233
0203717236
9781135685072
113568507X
9781135685140
1135685142
041541833X
9780415418331
0415849527
9780415849524

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medieval London.DDC classification:

307.7609421

LOC classification:

DA680 .W59 2007

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Contents:

1. The commune -- 2. The structure of government -- 3. The ruling dynasties -- 4. The administration and its officers -- 5. The mercantile interests -- 6. The rise of the crafts -- 7. The disruption of the commune 1216-63 -- 8. The crisis of 1263-70 -- 9. The intervention of Edward I 1270-99 -- 10. The making of the constitution 1299-1319 -- 11. The city and the kingdom 1319-37 -- 12. The capital.

Summary: This unique study is based on the careful interpretation of evidence in the commercial and administrative records of the City and in the royal records, of the process by which London developed from a commune of a feudal kingdom into the capital city of the English nation. The period covered is the century and a half between 1191 and the beginnings of the Hundred Years' War. Leading themes are the emergence of its administrative elite, the changing pattern of its mercantile interests, and the rise of its craft organizations; and a detailed account is given of the social and constitutional co.

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Reprint. originally published: [London] : University of London, Athlone Press, 1963.

This unique study is based on the careful interpretation of evidence in the commercial and administrative records of the City and in the royal records, of the process by which London developed from a commune of a feudal kingdom into the capital city of the English nation. The period covered is the century and a half between 1191 and the beginnings of the Hundred Years' War. Leading themes are the emergence of its administrative elite, the changing pattern of its mercantile interests, and the rise of its craft organizations; and a detailed account is given of the social and constitutional co.