What was life like in towns and cities in medieval Europe? How did people live, and why was it that some towns grew into major urban centres while others did no

Although the city as a central entity did not simply disappear with the Fall of the Roman Empire, the development of urban space at least since the twelfth cent

Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 a

A concise study of large time frame (fourth-twelfth centuries) charting the growth and development of cities in north-west Europe.

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 lat