DESOLATION OF A CITY by Charles Phythian-Adams, Lyndal Roper ( 9780521525008 )

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Title:

DESOLATION OF A CITY
COVENTRY AND THE URBAN CRISIS OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES

By:

Charles Phythian-Adams, Lyndal Roper

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Paperback

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0521525004

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9780521525008

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

24 April, 2002

Series:

Past and Present Publications

Pages:

376

Description:

A richly documented case-study of urban crisis and decline in late-medieval England.

Synopsis:

This book is a contribution to both national and local history. Coventry is taken as a richly documented case-study of the crisis which marked the end of the medieval period for many substantial towns. Its demographic and economic decline is followed from the fifteenth century to a dramatic period of short-term crisis between 1518 and 1525. Attention is then focused on the traditional structure of the community: the life-cycles of the citizens are related to the intricate pattern of social positions within a multi-dimensional survey. The author illustrates how the occupants of this structure were depleted by crisis and decline, through devastating depopulation, the attrition of the male labour-force, and the failure of the population to reproduce itself. The results included an uncontrolled insurrectionary riot, the emergence of a radical programme for reform along very early 'Commonwealth' lines in the 1530s and, ultimately, the erosion of the old communal organisation and its ideals.

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