EAN: 9780820451633

THE KINGS TOWNS - LORRAINE ATTREED GEBUNDEN

The King's Towns is the first book to study the relationship between England's central
government and four royally constituted towns of the provinces from the fourteenth through
sixteenth centuries. This critical time period presented such challenges as the post-plague
economy and the Wars of the Roses. The work's comparative approach permits an in-depth study of
such topics as urban violence and commercial activity. Its chronological scope reveals the
evolution of monarchical power interfacing with the localities  and sheds light on the debate
concerning the New Monarchy developing across Europe. This is a study about the search for
identity  as civic officials and townspeople learned to live with and exercise their hard-won
liberties. The work reveals how medieval towns embodied political philosophies of
self-determination as well as ideals of social and economic advancement still recognizable
today.

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