Church in the Medieval Town

T.R. Slater, University of Birmingham and Gervase Rosser, St Catherine's College, Oxford Toby Barnard, Daibhi O Croinin, Elizabeth Hickey, Katharine Simms, Padraig O Neill, Bernard Meehan, Dagmar O Riain-Raedel, Tomas O Concheanainn, Padraig O Riain, Marvin Colker, A.I. Doyle, Alan Ford, Rolf Loeber, Karl S. Bottigheimer, Nollaig O Muraile, Katharine Simms. T.R. Slater, Gervase Rosser, Rodney Hilton, John Edwards, Christopher Dyer, Jens Rohrkasten, R.N. Swanson, B.J. Graham, Keith D. Lilley, Nigel Baker, Richard Holt, Tim Tatton-Brown, John Blair.

• Contents: Introduction, T.R. Slater and Gervase Rosser; Status and class in the medieval town, Rodney Hilton; Conflict and political community in the medieval town: disputes between clergy and laity in Hereford, Gervase Rosser; The Church and the Jews in English medieval towns, John Edwards; Trade, towns and the Church: ecclesiastical consumers and the urban economy of the West Midlands, 1290-1540, Christopher Dyer; The origin and early development of the London Mendicant houses, Jens Röhrkasten; Urban rectories and urban fortunes in late medieval England: the evidence from Bishop’s Lynn, R.N. Swanson; The town and the monastery: early medieval urbanization in Ireland, AD800-1150, B.J. Graham; Benedictine town planning in medieval England: evidence from St Albans, T.R. Slater; Trading places: monastic initiative and the development of high-medieval Coventry, Keith D. Lilley; The origins of urban parish boundaries, Nigel Baker and Richard Holt; Medieval parishes and parish churches in Canterbury, Tim Tatton-Brown; Clerical communities and parochial space: the planning of urban mother churches in the 12th and 13th centuries, John Blair; Index.

'What we have here is a whole range of new approaches to old or previously intractable problems, and the use of new techniques to try to solve them. The essays in this volume have opened up the debate on the role of the Church in town formation and town life in exciting ways. The book has been beautifully produced by the publisher, and the cartography is quite outstanding.' The Ricardian, Vol. XI, No. 146