Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe

Matthew Frank Stevens studied at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, completing his PhD in medieval social and economic history in 2005. He is now an Associate Professor of history at Swansea University. He has been an Ulam fellow of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toru?, an Eileen Power fellow of the Economic History Society, at Oxford University, and a research officer at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. He is the author of numerous academic articles and two monographs: Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales: Ethnicity, Gender and Economy in Ruthin, 1282-1348 (2010) and The Economy of Wales, 1067-1536 (2019).Roman Czaja studied history at the Institute of History and Archives Sciences of Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toru?, completing his PhD. in the Department of Arts in 1991. He is now a Professor of history at NCU, holding the Chair of Medieval History and Auxiliary Sciences of History. A fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Humboldt Universität and Freie Universität in Berlin, in 2018 he was honoured by the University of Debrecen with the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa. He is author of over 250 research articles and of five books. In 2008 he published Grupy rz?dz?ce w miastach nadba?tyckich w ?redniowieczu (Ruling Groups in the Cities of the Baltic Zone in the Middle Ages) with Nicolaus Copernicus University Press.

• 1: Introduction2: The place of native populations in the chartered towns of conquered regions: Wales and Prussia as a comparative case study3: 'Irishtowns' and 'Welsh Streets': ethnic enclaves within the towns of colonial Ireland and Wales in a northern-European colonial context4: Women in the small-town economy of medieval Wales and Prussia5: Urban legislation as an instrument for the formation and regulation of socio-economic life in 14th-century Prussian and Irish towns6: The participation of craftsmen in municipal governance in late medieval Malbork and Stockholm7: Shaping the public space of Danzig and Dublin8: Military affairs and community in Prussian, Livonian and Irish towns, 13th-16th centuries9: Quarters and Quartermasters in Franconian and Prussian Towns, 14th-16th Centuries: The Common People and Their Participation in Urban Governance10: Maintaining a 'special relationship'? Petitions to the crown from Irish and Welsh towns, 13th -16th centuries11: Conclusion

It is the nature of rich books to raise questions. In this case, this regret does not carry much weight in view of the importance of the heuristic and methodological avenues opened up by this work.