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Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe The Social and Political Order of Peripheral Urban Communities from the Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries

9780197267301

Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe The Social and Political Order of Peripheral Urban Communities from the Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries

  • ISBN 13:

    9780197267301

  • ISBN 10:

    0197267300

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 06/10/2022
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

In the later Middle Ages a European 'core' of culturally and administratively sophisticated societies with rapidly growing populations, on an axis from England to Italy, colonised the European 'periphery'. In northern Europe this periphery included Wales and Ireland, as colonised by the English, and Prussia and Livonia, as colonised (mainly) by Germanic and Nordic peoples. A key tool of colonisation was the chartered town, giving citizens distinguishing legal privileges and a degree of self-regulation. Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe contends that while the chartered town, as a legal and social-political concept, was transferred to peripheral areas by colonisers, its implementation and adaptation in peripheral areas resulted in unique societies, not simply the replication of core urban forms and communities. In so doing, it compares the development of social and political institutions in the chartered towns of medieval Ireland, Wales, Prussia, and Livonia. Research themes
include community formation, normalisation/social disciplining, and peace making/keeping.

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