A History of Urban Society in Europe
The Growth of the Medieval City: From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century
1st Edition
By David M Nicholas
April 18, 1997
The first part of David Nicholas's massive two-volume study of the medieval city, this book is a major achievement in its own right. (It is also fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use it with its equally impressive sequel which is being published simultaneously.) In it, ...
The Later Medieval City: 1300-1500
1st Edition
By David Nicholas
April 18, 1997
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 ...
The Early Modern City 1450-1750
1st Edition
By Christopher R. Friedrichs
February 06, 1995
A pioneering text which covers the urban society of early modern Europe as a whole. Challenges the usual emphasis on regional diversity by stressing the extent to which cities across Europe shared a common urban civilization whose major features remained remarkably constant throughout the period. ...