Before joining the Institute of Reformation Studies in St Andrews in 2004, Tom Scott was based in the School of History at the University of Liverpool. Before that he was a research fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. He has worked on town-country relations and regional identities in late medieval and early modern Germany, bringing his approach to bear upon aspects of the Reformation at the grassroots and on the German Peasants' War.

• Introduction ; 1. Europe in AD 1000 ; 2. The Rise of the Communes, 1000-1150 ; 3. Cities and their Adversaries, 1150-1300 ; 4. City-States at the Crossroads, 1300-1450: The South ; 5. City-States at the Crossroads, 1300-1450: The North ; 6. Survival and Transformation, 1450-1600 ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

Scott has given us an excellent, very stimulating starting point, which any future effort to examine economic and political transformation from the Middle Ages to modernity will surely want to take account of.

Before joining the Institute of Reformation Studies in St Andrews in 2004, Tom Scott was based in the School of History at the University of Liverpool. Before that he was a research fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. He has worked on town-country relations and regional identities in late medieval and early modern Germany, bringing his approach to bear upon aspects of the Reformation at the grassroots and on the German Peasants' War.

• Introduction ; 1. Europe in AD 1000 ; 2. The Rise of the Communes, 1000-1150 ; 3. Cities and their Adversaries, 1150-1300 ; 4. City-States at the Crossroads, 1300-1450: The South ; 5. City-States at the Crossroads, 1300-1450: The North ; 6. Survival and Transformation, 1450-1600 ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

Scott has given us an excellent, very stimulating starting point, which any future effort to examine economic and political transformation from the Middle Ages to modernity will surely want to take account of.

Before joining the Institute of Reformation Studies in St Andrews in 2004, Tom Scott was based in the School of History at the University of Liverpool. Before that he was a research fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. He has worked on town-country relations and regional identities in late medieval and early modern Germany, bringing his approach to bear upon aspects of the Reformation at the grassroots and on the German Peasants' War.

• Introduction ; 1. Europe in AD 1000 ; 2. The Rise of the Communes, 1000-1150 ; 3. Cities and their Adversaries, 1150-1300 ; 4. City-States at the Crossroads, 1300-1450: The South ; 5. City-States at the Crossroads, 1300-1450: The North ; 6. Survival and Transformation, 1450-1600 ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

Scott has given us an excellent, very stimulating starting point, which any future effort to examine economic and political transformation from the Middle Ages to modernity will surely want to take account of.