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By Dietrich Denecke (editor) and Gareth Shaw (editor)

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9780521343626 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1988, cover price $74.95

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9780521189743 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 3, 2011), cover price $49.99

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Product Description: Have you ever wondered what it was like living in a medieval town? What sort of house would you live in? What would you eat? What would your street look like? If the answer to any of these questions is yes then Life in a Medieval Town will provide you with the answers...read more

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9781848681262 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, January 19, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Have you ever wondered what it was like living in a medieval town?
9780750946421 | Gardners Books, December 1, 2007, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Have you ever wondered what it was like living in a medieval town?

A vast array of images and vignettes depicts the everyday hardships and commonplace pleasures of people living in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in a dawn-to-dark account of life in the late Middle Ages that captures the era's religious, economic, institutional, educational, leisure, cultural, and social practices and institutions.
By Arsenio Frugoni (introduced by) and Chiara Frugoni

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9780226266343 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: A vast array of images and vignettes depicts the everyday hardships and commonplace pleasures of people living in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in a dawn-to-dark account of life in the late Middle Ages that captures the era's religious, economic, institutional, educational, leisure, cultural, and social practices and institutions.

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9780226266350 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 2006, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: This exciting new collection of documents from across Europe gives a fresh perspective and sharp taste of everyday life in a medieval town. The sources range from the standard chronicles and charters to the less often viewed accounts of marriage disputes, urban women, families, the environment, the dangers of town life, and civic ritual...read more
By Maryanne Kowaleski (editor)

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9781551114491 | Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education, May 24, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This exciting new collection of documents from across Europe gives a fresh perspective and sharp taste of everyday life in a medieval town.

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Presents a history of the town in the Middle Ages, discussing its early growth and structure, trades, guilds, crime, sanitation, medical care, and the role of government and the church.

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9780313324987 | Greenwood Pub Group, April 30, 2005, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Presents a history of the town in the Middle Ages, discussing its early growth and structure, trades, guilds, crime, sanitation, medical care, and the role of government and the church.

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Describes town life in medieval times and many aspects of the life of medieval traders, who traveled long distances to bring trade items to the towns.

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9781417684427 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $19.60 | About this edition: Describes town life in medieval times and many aspects of the life of medieval traders, who traveled long distances to bring trade items to the towns.

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Features daily life in a town, the artisans and businesspeople who populated it, and what kind of transportation was available in the days of horse and cart, covering trades for food, trades for equipment, apprenticeships, travel, and more. Simultaneous.

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9780778713821 | Crabtree Pub Co, March 1, 2004, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Describes town life in medieval times and many aspects of the life of medieval traders, who traveled long distances to bring trade items to the towns.

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9780778713500 | Crabtree Pub Co, March 1, 2004, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: Describes town life in medieval times and many aspects of the life of medieval traders, who traveled long distances to bring trade items to the towns.

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Product Description: Reflecting the vigour of both urban and medieval history, this timely textbook by a leading scholar of urban studies is a broadly interdisciplinary work that breaks new ground by emphasising the links between the late medieval and early modern cities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780333949825 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 17, 2003, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Reflecting the vigour of both urban and medieval history, this timely textbook by a leading scholar of urban studies is a broadly interdisciplinary work that breaks new ground by emphasising the links between the late medieval and early modern cities.

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9780333949832 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 17, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Reflecting the vigor of both urban and medieval history, this timely textbook from an established scholar in urban studies is a broadly interdisciplinary work that breaks new ground by emphasizing the links between the late medieval and early modern cities.

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9780333712481 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 1, 2002, cover price $99.95

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9780333712498 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 5, 2002, cover price $46.00

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Product Description: The present volume brings together European and American scholars from a range of complementary disciplines (cartographers, economic and social historians, historians of social and political institutions, economic geographers, historians of art and textual analysts), all of whom are interested in exploring potential interconnections between their respective approaches to the study of regions and landscapes, 'real' or imagined, in the early modern and medieval periods...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Peter Ainsworth (editor)

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9780820450636 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 1, 2000, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: The present volume brings together European and American scholars from a range of complementary disciplines (cartographers, economic and social historians, historians of social and political institutions, economic geographers, historians of art and textual analysts), all of whom are interested in exploring potential interconnections between their respective approaches to the study of regions and landscapes, 'real' or imagined, in the early modern and medieval periods.
9783906765327 | Peter Lang, December 1, 2000, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: The present volume brings together European and American scholars from a range of complementary disciplines (cartographers, economic and social historians, historians of social and political institutions, economic geographers, historians of art and textual analysts), all of whom are interested in exploring potential interconnections between their respective approaches to the study of regions and landscapes, ‘real’ or imagined, in the early modern and medieval periods.

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Product Description: The papers in this volume are contributed by leading historians, art historians and archaeologists and focus on 5 key themes: the evolution of settlement patterns in the Byzantine empire; the impact of barbarian elites in Spain, Gaul, Italy and Pannonia; the role of the Church in the definition of new links between town and territories; the situation in culturally homogenous territories such as Constantinople and the minor Langbard polities; the situation in economically defined territories...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Gian Pietro Brogiolo (editor), Neil Christie (editor) and Nancy Gauthier (editor)

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9789004118690 | Brill Academic Pub, September 1, 2000, cover price $217.00 | About this edition: The papers in this volume are contributed by leading historians, art historians and archaeologists and focus on 5 key themes: the evolution of settlement patterns in the Byzantine empire; the impact of barbarian elites in Spain, Gaul, Italy and Pannonia; the role of the Church in the definition of new links between town and territories; the situation in culturally homogenous territories such as Constantinople and the minor Langbard polities; the situation in economically defined territories.

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Product Description: This volume examines the changing perceptions and ideals of town life, from the classical civitas/polis (the lynch-pin of ancient civilisation) to the medieval city (still playing many central roles, but with less of the ideological charge characteristic of Antiquity)...read more
By Gian Pietro Brogiolo (editor) and B. Ward-Perkins (editor)

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9789004109018 | Brill Academic Pub, June 1, 1999, cover price $181.00 | About this edition: This volume examines the changing perceptions and ideals of town life, from the classical civitas/polis (the lynch-pin of ancient civilisation) to the medieval city (still playing many central roles, but with less of the ideological charge characteristic of Antiquity).

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Product Description: Examining the nature and diversity of urban life during the 16th and 17th centuries, a period of considerable economic, political and social change, this text stresses the extent to which towns remained distinct from their rural hinterlands...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780340663240 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 25, 1998, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Examining the nature and diversity of urban life during the 16th and 17th centuries, a period of considerable economic, political and social change, this text stresses the extent to which towns remained distinct from their rural hinterlands.

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9780340719817, titled "Urban Europe, 1500-1700" | Hodder Education, June 25, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Examining the nature and diversity of urban life during the 16th and 17th centuries-- a period of considerable economic, political and social change-- this text stresses the extent to which towns remained distinct from their rural hinterlands.

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An introduction to life in a medieval town, including crafts, commerce, community life, food, and clothing
By Daisy Kerr and Gerald Wood (illustrator)

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9780531153130 | Reprint edition (Franklin Watts, August 1, 1997), cover price $7.00 | About this edition: An introduction to life in a medieval town, including crafts, commerce, community life, food, and clothing

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9780531144268 | Franklin Watts, March 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: An introduction to life in a medieval town, including crafts, commerce, community life, food, and clothing

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Product 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...read more

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9780582013186 | Longman Pub Group, February 1, 1997, cover price $151.80 | About this edition: This second in a two-volume set deals with a much shorter period of time than the first - from the impact of the Black Death to the urban crises at the end of the medieval era.

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9780582013179, titled "The Later Medieval City 1300-1500" | Taylor & Francis, June 1, 1997, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: This is the first in a two-volume study of the medieval city. It traces the slow regeneration of urban life in the early-medieval period, showing where and how an urban tradition had survived from late antiquity, and when and why new urban communities began to form where there was no continuity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780582299078 | Longman Pub Group, February 1, 1997, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This is the first in a two-volume study of the medieval city.

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Product Description: This comparative study takes a radical look at the survival, evolution and development of towns between AD 300 and AD 1000. The studies in this volume show that Roman towns long outlasted the Empire, and the so-called dark ages were a time of significant development in urban character and life...read more
By Neil Christie (editor) and S. T. Loseby (editor)

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9781859281079 | Scolar Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This comparative study takes a radical look at the survival, evolution and development of towns between AD 300 and AD 1000.

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Product Description: Warfare in Europe in the Middle Ages underwent a marked change of emphasis as urban life expanded. The concentration of wealth represented by a city was a valuable objective; success, even if less immediate, was more easily confirmed by subsequent administrative arrangements; and logistically, the static nature of a siege was infinitely preferable to the uncertainties of campaign...read more
By Ivy A. Corfis (editor) and Michael Wolfe (editor)

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9780851155616 | Boydell & Brewer Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Warfare in Europe in the Middle Ages underwent a marked change of emphasis as urban life expanded.

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Product Description: Papers from a conference at the University of Minnesota, 1991.
By Barbara Hanawalt (editor) and Kathryn L. Reyerson (editor)

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9780816623594 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $70.50 | About this edition: Papers from a conference at the University of Minnesota, 1991.

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Product Description: The rise of large, powerful states in Europe after 1000 a.d. transformed life across the Continent and eventually through the whole world. The new European states disposed of unprecedented stores of capital and vast military capacities...read more
By Willem Pieter Blockmans (editor) and Charles Tilly (editor)

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9780813388496 | Westview Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The rise of large, powerful states in Europe after 1000 a.

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Describes the institutions and daily life of towns in fourteenth-century western Europe, including home life, guilds, schools, the Church, and the ravages of the plague
By John D. Clare (editor)

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9780788166570 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1993, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Describes the institutions and daily life of towns in fourteenth-century western Europe, including home life, guilds, schools, the Church, and the ravages of the plague
9780152005153 | Harcourt Childrens Books, March 1, 1993, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Describes the institutions and daily life of towns in fourteenth-century western Europe, including home life, guilds, schools, the Church, and the ravages of the plague

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9780152013202 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1996, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Describes the institutions and daily life of towns in fourteenth-century western Europe, including home life, guilds, schools, the Church, and the ravages of the plague

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