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Tables of Contents for The Growth of the Medieval City
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps and Plans
xi
1
Editor's Preface
xii
2
Preface
xiv
4
Acknowledgements
xviii
PART ONE: ANTIQUITY AND THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
1
84
1. The Urban Legacy of Antiquity
3
21
The Roman and the medieval city
3
1
Organic and planned cities
4
2
Roman Urbanisation in the Early Empire
6
4
City types and public administration
6
1
The beginnings of urbanisation in Roman Gaul
7
2
Roman urbanisation in Britain
9
1
The Third-century Crisis and Its Aftermath
10
4
The walled city as an urban type
10
4
The Fourth Century
14
3
The Mediterranean basin
14
2
Gaul and Britain
16
1
Christianity and the Urban Fabric of Late Antiquity
17
1
The Fifth Century: The Catastrophe of Roman Urbanisation
18
6
The Mediterranean
18
2
Gaul and Britain
20
4
2. Suburbanisation and Deurbanisation in Merovingian and Carolingian Gaul, 500-830
24
30
Capitals
26
1
The bourgs
27
1
Episcopal cities and merchant suburbs
28
2
Urban society in the Merovingian age
30
1
Episcopal cities and public lordship in Merovingian Gaul
30
1
Monastic cities
31
2
The fate of Roman urbanisation in southern and western Gaul
33
1
Episcopacy and urbanisation in the Rhineland
34
1
Urban life in pre-Carolingian Italy
35
2
Urbanisation in early Britain
37
1
The Economy of the Early Cities: the Problem of the Seventh Century
38
4
Quentovic and Dorestad
40
1
Urban life in Britain in the seventh century
41
1
Urban Life in Lombard and Early Carolingian Italy
42
5
Urban Life in Northern Europe in the Early Carolingian Age
47
7
Trade in Carolingian city and suburb
49
1
The coastal emporia
50
1
The Islamic cities
51
3
3. Challenge and Response: the Scandinavian and Muslim Attacks and the Revival of Urban Life in the West, 830-1000
54
31
The Scandinavian attacks and urbanisation
54
2
The Low Countries
56
2
The Wik
58
1
Urbanisation in England in the Viking age
58
2
The Burghal Hidage and English urban organisation
60
1
The Saxon burhs: the example of Winchester
61
2
The Scandinavians and urban development: the examples of York and Dublin
63
1
The Tenth-century Revival
64
21
France
65
2
England
67
2
Germany
69
3
Eastern Europe
72
2
Merchants and craftsmen in post-Carolingian Italy
74
3
City and contado in early medieval Italy
77
4
The Low Countries
81
1
Retrospect: a millennium of urban development
81
4
PART TWO: THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES
85
84
4. From Seigniorial to Economic Urbanisation: Landowning, Commerce and Industry in the Cities of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
87
54
Residence and city
87
1
Lords and fortresses
88
1
Jewish capital and urban growth
89
1
The Physical Expansion of the Cities
90
14
The terminology of urbanisation
90
1
The urban parishes
91
1
Extension of the walls
92
4
The planned towns of the central Middle Ages
96
2
City plan and city wall
98
2
Expansion and form of the urban markets
100
2
Neighbourhoods, occupational segregation and public amenities in the twelfth-century city
102
2
The Beginnings of Economic Urbanisation
104
11
Transport and urbanisation
106
2
Politics and urbanisation
108
2
The early development of urban/economic regions
110
3
Fairs and urbanisation
113
2
Urban Society in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: From Landowning Elite Toward Merchant Patriciate
115
14
City and contado in the Mediterranean basin
117
8
Ministerial elite or commercial patriciate?
125
4
Guilds and Social Organisation
129
12
The early guilds: landowners and merchants
129
4
Merchant guilds in Germany and the Low Countries
133
1
Merchant guilds in France and Italy
134
1
Craft guilds
135
4
Craft statutes, quality control and regulation of the market
139
2
5. Urban Law and Government in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
141
28
Lords and corporations: the beginnings of urban government in northern Europe
141
5
Municipal liberties in France, England and the Low Countries
146
1
The communal movements
146
4
Communal institutions and the growth of municipal government
150
2
Jurisdictional heterogeneity in the cities
152
5
Merchant law and urban law
154
1
Freedom and freedoms in the medieval city
155
2
Urban Government in Southern Europe
157
12
The urban consulates of Italy
157
6
The movement for municipal independence in Italy: the communal movement and the first Lombard League
163
3
Urban consulates in France
166
1
The example of Toulouse
167
2
PART THREE: THE MATURING OF MEDIEVAL URBANISATION, c. 1190-c. 1270
169
104
6. The Expansion of the Cities in the Thirteenth Century
171
31
Industrialisation, long-distance trade and urbanisation
171
3
Diversification and domestic demand
174
1
Trade, manufacture and the wealth structure. Distribution of goods
175
3
Urban networks and demographic patterns
178
1
Urban regions
179
2
The region and population replenishment
181
1
Urban privilege and the regional market
182
2
Changes in the City Plan. The Walls, Inner Cities and Suburbs
184
18
Reims: a case study of planned topographical expansion
186
1
The street plan and social geography
187
2
The land market and urban rent
189
2
The market square
191
2
Public buildings on the market
193
2
The first city halls
195
1
Urban renewal in thirteenth-century Italy
196
4
The example of Bologna (Plan 14)
200
2
7. The North European Cities in the Thirteenth Century
202
44
Citizenship: the nature of the urban community
202
2
The cities and their lords
204
4
The urban churches in the thirteenth century
208
2
City and countryside. Urban administration in the environs
210
1
Urban leagues
211
1
The city militia
212
1
Urban Social Structures
213
7
Formation and definition of urban elites
213
6
The elite of Metz
219
1
The Merchant Guilds in the Thirteenth Century
220
8
Crafts and craft organisations
222
6
Urban Government in the Thirteenth Century
228
11
Government through councils
228
1
The Low Countries
229
1
France
230
1
The communes: mayors, jures and public administration
231
3
Germany
234
2
England
236
2
The special case of London
238
1
Early City Finances
239
7
The French royal domain and the south
241
2
England
243
1
Germany
244
2
8. The Commercial Cities of Thirteenth-century Italy under 'Popular' Oligarchies
246
27
The Italian urban family
247
1
City Government in Italy During the Early Thirteenth Century
248
14
The executive: senator, doge, podesta
248
4
Councils
252
1
The administration of the contado
253
2
City finances in Italy
255
3
Merchants, crafts and guilds
258
4
Municipal Government under the Popolo
262
11
Guelfs and Ghibellines
266
2
The popolo at Florence
268
2
The popolo and the guilds
270
3
PART FOUR: A HALF-CENTURY OF CRISIS
273
49
9. Merchant as Craftsman, Magnate as Guildsman: The Transformation of the Medieval City, c. 1270- c. 1325
275
47
Economy and demography
275
7
England
282
5
London: the metropolis as paradigm
283
3
Freedom of the city and the crafts
286
1
France
287
7
The special case of Paris
287
1
Citizenship
288
1
The crafts in French cities
289
1
Government and political conflict in France and Iberia
290
2
The end of the communal movement
292
2
The Low Countries and Northern France
294
6
Germany
300
7
Freiburg-im-Breisgau
302
1
Magdeburg
303
1
Erfurt
304
1
The episcopal cities of the Rhineland
305
1
Urban leagues
306
1
Italy
307
15
Tuscany and Umbria
308
2
The urban magnates after 1293
310
2
Feuds and civil discord
312
1
Guelfs, Ghibellines, Blacks and Whites in Tuscany
313
1
Urban government under the popoli outside Florence
314
3
Municipal finances in Italy
317
3
A concluding reflection
320
2
Glossary
322
6
Suggestions for Further Reading
328
7
Abbreviations
335
4
Bibliography
339
35
Maps and Plans
374
33
Index
407