The later medieval city, 1300-1500
By: David Nicholas.
Series: A history of urban society in Europe
Publisher: Longman
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Cities and towns, Medieval -- Europe
Other titles: Later medieval city
Description: The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500, the second part of David Nicholas's ambitious two-volume study of cities and city life in the Middle Ages, fully lives up to its splendid precursor, The Growth of the Medieval City. (Like that volume it is fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use the two as a continuum.) This book covers a much shorter period than the first.

That traced the rise of the medieval European city system from late antiquity to the early fourteenth century; this offers a portrait of the fully developed later medieval city in all its richness and complexity.

Like its predecessor, this book is massively, and vividly, documented. Its approach is interdisciplinary and comparative, and its examples and case studies are drawn from across Europe: from France, England, Germany, the Low Countries, Iberia and Italy, with briefer reviews of the urban experience elsewhere from the Baltic to the Balkans. The result is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date study of its multifaceted subject.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-396) and index.