IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 229: Continuity and Change in the Late Medieval English Town, I: Beyond 'Urban Decline'
Monday 1 July 2013, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Department of History, Durham University |
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| Organiser: | Dana Durkee, Department of History, Durham University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Christian Liddy, Department of History, Durham University |
| Paper 229-a | A North-South Divide: Regional Responses to Recession in 15th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban |
| Paper 229-b | Coventry: A Case Study Reassessing the Narrative of Late Medieval Crisis and Decline (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban |
| Paper 229-c | The Merchant Class of Late Medieval Norwich (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Social History |
| Abstract | Over the last thirty years interest in the socio-economic and political fortunes of late medieval English towns has been dominated by notions of 'urban decline' and 'urban oligarchy'. These debates have stalled. Yet, while historians have sometimes questioned their relevance, discussion of urban society and economy and urban politics and government in the late Middle Ages seems to be impossible without reference to these concepts. This session considers the nuanced problems and transformations specific to the developing economies of English towns in the 15th century. |