London 800 - 1216 : The shaping of a city
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Titre
London 800 - 1216 : The shaping of a city
Sujet
, histoire urbaine, société urbaine, forme urbaine, gouvernance, gestion locale, commerce, collectivités locales, religion, London, Londres, Moyen Âge, Middle Ages, Brooke Christopher
Description
Abstract from the publisher :
London 800-1216 : The shaping of a city takes its place in the eight-volume History of London series, but is designed also to be a self-contained enquiry into the place of ninth- to twelfth-century London in the history of the City and of the urban renaissance... No general history of London before 1200 on a comparable scale has been attempted for fifty years, but the authors have made extensive use of numerous recent studies, especially work on London's constitutional and social history, and have aimed to produce a wide-ranging book which takes stock of both current insights and current problems.
With this aim in view, a structure in four parts has been devised : the first declares the themes, the approach, the setting and the materials; the second part reconstructs the physical nature of London, tracing the pattern from a unique and vivid contemporary description and from the maze of parishes and wards and streets, since topography is the main key to the forces that shape a city; the third deals with the social strata of the city, the personalities and nature of the city's government and its place in the larger commercial world of the age, focusing especially on the origins of the crucial offices of sheriff and mayor; the fourth part outlines the ecclesiastical history of London.
