The Growth of the Medieval City

, by David M Nicholas

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List of Maps and Plans

(1)

Editor's Preface

xii

(2)

Preface

xiv

(4)

Acknowledgements

xviii

PART ONE: ANTIQUITY AND THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

(84)

1. The Urban Legacy of Antiquity

(21)

The Roman and the medieval city

(1)

Organic and planned cities

(2)

Roman Urbanisation in the Early Empire

(4)

City types and public administration

(1)

The beginnings of urbanisation in Roman Gaul

(2)

Roman urbanisation in Britain

(1)

The Third-century Crisis and Its Aftermath

(4)

The walled city as an urban type

(4)

The Fourth Century

(3)

The Mediterranean basin

(2)

Gaul and Britain

(1)

Christianity and the Urban Fabric of Late Antiquity

(1)

The Fifth Century: The Catastrophe of Roman Urbanisation

(6)

The Mediterranean

(2)

Gaul and Britain

(4)

2. Suburbanisation and Deurbanisation in Merovingian and Carolingian Gaul, 500-830

(30)

Capitals

(1)

The bourgs

(1)

Episcopal cities and merchant suburbs

(2)

Urban society in the Merovingian age

(1)

Episcopal cities and public lordship in Merovingian Gaul

(1)

Monastic cities

(2)

The fate of Roman urbanisation in southern and western Gaul

(1)

Episcopacy and urbanisation in the Rhineland

(1)

Urban life in pre-Carolingian Italy

(2)

Urbanisation in early Britain

(1)

The Economy of the Early Cities: the Problem of the Seventh Century

(4)

Quentovic and Dorestad

(1)

Urban life in Britain in the seventh century

(1)

Urban Life in Lombard and Early Carolingian Italy

(5)

Urban Life in Northern Europe in the Early Carolingian Age

(7)

Trade in Carolingian city and suburb

(1)

The coastal emporia

(1)

The Islamic cities

(3)

3. Challenge and Response: the Scandinavian and Muslim Attacks and the Revival of Urban Life in the West, 830-1000

(31)

The Scandinavian attacks and urbanisation

(2)

The Low Countries

(2)

The Wik

(1)

Urbanisation in England in the Viking age

(2)

The Burghal Hidage and English urban organisation

(1)

The Saxon burhs: the example of Winchester

(2)

The Scandinavians and urban development: the examples of York and Dublin

(1)

The Tenth-century Revival

(21)

France

(2)

England

(2)

Germany

(3)

Eastern Europe

(2)

Merchants and craftsmen in post-Carolingian Italy

(3)

City and contado in early medieval Italy

(4)

The Low Countries

(1)

Retrospect: a millennium of urban development

(4)

PART TWO: THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES

(84)

4. From Seigniorial to Economic Urbanisation: Landowning, Commerce and Industry in the Cities of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

(54)

Residence and city

(1)

Lords and fortresses

(1)

Jewish capital and urban growth

(1)

The Physical Expansion of the Cities

(14)

The terminology of urbanisation

(1)

The urban parishes

(1)

Extension of the walls

(4)

The planned towns of the central Middle Ages

(2)

City plan and city wall

(2)

Expansion and form of the urban markets

100

(2)

Neighbourhoods, occupational segregation and public amenities in the twelfth-century city

102

(2)

The Beginnings of Economic Urbanisation

104

(11)

Transport and urbanisation

106

(2)

Politics and urbanisation

108

(2)

The early development of urban/economic regions

110

(3)

Fairs and urbanisation

113

(2)

Urban Society in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: From Landowning Elite Toward Merchant Patriciate

115

(14)

City and contado in the Mediterranean basin

117

(8)

Ministerial elite or commercial patriciate?

125

(4)

Guilds and Social Organisation

129

(12)

The early guilds: landowners and merchants

129

(4)

Merchant guilds in Germany and the Low Countries

133

(1)

Merchant guilds in France and Italy

134

(1)

Craft guilds

135

(4)

Craft statutes, quality control and regulation of the market

139

(2)

5. Urban Law and Government in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

141

(28)

Lords and corporations: the beginnings of urban government in northern Europe

141

(5)

Municipal liberties in France, England and the Low Countries

146

(1)

The communal movements

146

(4)

Communal institutions and the growth of municipal government

150

(2)

Jurisdictional heterogeneity in the cities

152

(5)

Merchant law and urban law

154

(1)

Freedom and freedoms in the medieval city

155

(2)

Urban Government in Southern Europe

157

(12)

The urban consulates of Italy

157

(6)

The movement for municipal independence in Italy: the communal movement and the first Lombard League

163

(3)

Urban consulates in France

166

(1)

The example of Toulouse

167

(2)

PART THREE: THE MATURING OF MEDIEVAL URBANISATION, c. 1190-c. 1270

169

(104)

6. The Expansion of the Cities in the Thirteenth Century

171

(31)

Industrialisation, long-distance trade and urbanisation

171

(3)

Diversification and domestic demand

174

(1)

Trade, manufacture and the wealth structure. Distribution of goods

175

(3)

Urban networks and demographic patterns

178

(1)

Urban regions

179

(2)

The region and population replenishment

181

(1)

Urban privilege and the regional market

182

(2)

Changes in the City Plan. The Walls, Inner Cities and Suburbs

184

(18)

Reims: a case study of planned topographical expansion

186

(1)

The street plan and social geography

187

(2)

The land market and urban rent

189

(2)

The market square

191

(2)

Public buildings on the market

193

(2)

The first city halls

195

(1)

Urban renewal in thirteenth-century Italy

196

(4)

The example of Bologna (Plan 14)

200

(2)

7. The North European Cities in the Thirteenth Century

202

(44)

Citizenship: the nature of the urban community

202

(2)

The cities and their lords

204

(4)

The urban churches in the thirteenth century

208

(2)

City and countryside. Urban administration in the environs

210

(1)

Urban leagues

211

(1)

The city militia

212

(1)

Urban Social Structures

213

(7)

Formation and definition of urban elites

213

(6)

The elite of Metz

219

(1)

The Merchant Guilds in the Thirteenth Century

220

(8)

Crafts and craft organisations

222

(6)

Urban Government in the Thirteenth Century

228

(11)

Government through councils

228

(1)

The Low Countries

229

(1)

France

230

(1)

The communes: mayors, jures and public administration

231

(3)

Germany

234

(2)

England

236

(2)

The special case of London

238

(1)

Early City Finances

239

(7)

The French royal domain and the south

241

(2)

England

243

(1)

Germany

244

(2)

8. The Commercial Cities of Thirteenth-century Italy under 'Popular' Oligarchies

246

(27)

The Italian urban family

247

(1)

City Government in Italy During the Early Thirteenth Century

248

(14)

The executive: senator, doge, podesta

248

(4)

Councils

252

(1)

The administration of the contado

253

(2)

City finances in Italy

255

(3)

Merchants, crafts and guilds

258

(4)

Municipal Government under the Popolo

262

(11)

Guelfs and Ghibellines

266

(2)

The popolo at Florence

268

(2)

The popolo and the guilds

270

(3)

PART FOUR: A HALF-CENTURY OF CRISIS

273

(49)

9. Merchant as Craftsman, Magnate as Guildsman: The Transformation of the Medieval City, c. 1270- c. 1325

275

(47)

Economy and demography

275

(7)

England

282

(5)

London: the metropolis as paradigm

283

(3)

Freedom of the city and the crafts

286

(1)

France

287

(7)

The special case of Paris

287

(1)

Citizenship

288

(1)

The crafts in French cities

289

(1)

Government and political conflict in France and Iberia

290

(2)

The end of the communal movement

292

(2)

The Low Countries and Northern France

294

(6)

Germany

300

(7)

Freiburg-im-Breisgau

302

(1)

Magdeburg

303

(1)

Erfurt

304

(1)

The episcopal cities of the Rhineland

305

(1)

Urban leagues

306

(1)

Italy

307

(15)

Tuscany and Umbria

308

(2)

The urban magnates after 1293

310

(2)

Feuds and civil discord

312

(1)

Guelfs, Ghibellines, Blacks and Whites in Tuscany

313

(1)

Urban government under the popoli outside Florence

314

(3)

Municipal finances in Italy

317

(3)

A concluding reflection

320

(2)

Glossary

322

(6)

Suggestions for Further Reading

328

(7)

Abbreviations

335

(4)

Bibliography

339

(35)

Maps and Plans

374

(33)

Index

407

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