Urban Growth and the Medieval Church
Subtitle: Gloucester and Worcester
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780754602668
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; Medieval European archaeology; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Urban & municipal planning; Urban communities; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Gloucester (England); Church history; Worcester (England); History; Religion - Church History; Medieval; History: World; Gloucestershire; Worcestershire; Growth; Christianity - History - General; Religious aspects; Christianity; Cities and towns; England
First sentence: This interdisciplinary study of early town development was designed to examine the role of the Church in the origins and the evolution of the larger English towns; that is, to assess the extent to which church institutions might have played a part in the processes of urban development, and to investigate what impact they had on the physical shape of the growing towns.