The Later Medieval City: 1300-1500

This second volume deals with a much shorter period than the first - from the impact of the Black Death to the urban crises at the end of the medieval era - but the survival of fuller, richer and more varied records allows David Nicholas to get closer to the splendours and squalors of everyday life in the cities of the time. If the first volume is largely an account of a long process of urban renewal, this is in many ways a portrait of the later medieval city itself. He discusses urban government and social structure as they evolved in the wake of plagues, famines, trade disruptions and warfare. The book concludes with separate chapters on urban women, children and religious minorities, education and culture. The result is a vibrant portrait of the tenor of life in the late medieval city.

David Nicholas is Professor of History at Clemson University, South Carolina.

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Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
The Medieval City at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century	p. 1
Cities in Crisis: the Economic and Demographic Realignments of Urban Europe in the Later Middle Ages	p. 25
The International Emporia	p. 36
The Demographic Disasters of the Later Middle Ages	p. 50
Urban Decline in the Fifteenth Century	p. 61
The City and the Region: City-states and the Symbiosis of the Rural and Urban Economies	p. 72
City and Region: Rural Landownership by Burgesses and Urban Political Supremacy	p. 87
City Governments and Urban Conflict: Patricians and Political Guilds	p. 108
City Lords and Municipal Governments in the Later Middle Ages	p. 108
City Government with Guild Participation, c. 1330-c. 1370	p. 113
The Urban Rebellions of the Fourteenth Century: the First Phase	p. 123
The Urban Rebellions of the Fourteenth Century: the Second Phase	p. 126
The Fifteenth-century Rebellions	p. 136
City Government and City Councils under Craft Control, c. 1370-c. 1500	p. 141
Public Administration and Finance in the Later Medieval Cities	p. 156
City Finances: Northern Europe	p. 163
City Finances: the South	p. 174
The Elites of the Later Medieval Cities	p. 180
The Replenishment of Patrician Fortunes: Strategies of Perpetuation	p. 194
Occupational Guilds, the Middle and Lower Orders, and Poverty in the Later Medieval City	p. 203
Guild Organisation and Politics	p. 227
The Legal Marginals of Urban Society: Women, Children and Religious Minorities in the Later Medieval Cities	p. 258
Urban Women in the Later Middle Ages	p. 258
Urban Children	p. 277
The Jews and the Muslims in the Later Medieval Cities	p. 280
Education, Culture and Community in the Later Medieval City	p. 288
The Rending of Community: Violence in the Later Medieval City	p. 302
The Restoration of Community: Processions, Display and Civic Patriotism in the Later Middle Ages	p. 316
The Tenor in Daily Life in the Later Medieval City	p. 322
Material Life in the Later Medieval City	p. 322
Glossary	p. 345
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 348
Abbreviations	p. 356
Bibliography	p. 360
Maps	p. 397
Index	p. 423
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