Shannon McSheffrey is Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She has written five books and numerous articles and chapters on aspects of English society, culture, and politics between 1400 and 1550. She is currently at work on the Evil May Day anti-immigrant riot in London in 1517. Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations.

• PrefacePart I: Study1. Citizen Guilds, Stranger Artisans, and the Hat Trade in London, circa 15002. The Formation of the Hatmaker's Fraternity3. The Hatmakers and the 1511 Agreement4. The Manuscript5. The Linguistic Interest of the Bilingual OrdinancesConclusionPart II: TextsEditorial ConventionsThe Bilingual Ordinances of the HatmakersThe Agreement with the HaberdashersThe Oath of the Wardens of the HaberdashersBibliography Index

The authors' evenly weighted combination of materials, from analytical frameworks to historical vignettes, helpful maps, and a bilingual edition of the extant texts, could be deployed in the classroom as an exemplary case study, offering in compact form a complete sense of the life and documents of a discrete subculture amid the hustle of premodern London life.

Shannon McSheffrey is Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She has written five books and numerous articles and chapters on aspects of English society, culture, and politics between 1400 and 1550. She is currently at work on the Evil May Day anti-immigrant riot in London in 1517. Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations.

• PrefacePart I: Study1. Citizen Guilds, Stranger Artisans, and the Hat Trade in London, circa 15002. The Formation of the Hatmaker's Fraternity3. The Hatmakers and the 1511 Agreement4. The Manuscript5. The Linguistic Interest of the Bilingual OrdinancesConclusionPart II: TextsEditorial ConventionsThe Bilingual Ordinances of the HatmakersThe Agreement with the HaberdashersThe Oath of the Wardens of the HaberdashersBibliography Index

The authors' evenly weighted combination of materials, from analytical frameworks to historical vignettes, helpful maps, and a bilingual edition of the extant texts, could be deployed in the classroom as an exemplary case study, offering in compact form a complete sense of the life and documents of a discrete subculture amid the hustle of premodern London life.

Shannon McSheffrey is Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She has written five books and numerous articles and chapters on aspects of English society, culture, and politics between 1400 and 1550. She is currently at work on the Evil May Day anti-immigrant riot in London in 1517. Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations.

• PrefacePart I: Study1. Citizen Guilds, Stranger Artisans, and the Hat Trade in London, circa 15002. The Formation of the Hatmaker's Fraternity3. The Hatmakers and the 1511 Agreement4. The Manuscript5. The Linguistic Interest of the Bilingual OrdinancesConclusionPart II: TextsEditorial ConventionsThe Bilingual Ordinances of the HatmakersThe Agreement with the HaberdashersThe Oath of the Wardens of the HaberdashersBibliography Index

The authors' evenly weighted combination of materials, from analytical frameworks to historical vignettes, helpful maps, and a bilingual edition of the extant texts, could be deployed in the classroom as an exemplary case study, offering in compact form a complete sense of the life and documents of a discrete subculture amid the hustle of premodern London life.