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Desolation of a City

Charles Phythian-Adams
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      This book is a contribution to both national and local history. Coventry is taken as a richly documented case-study of the crisis which marked the end of the medieval period for many substantial towns. Its demographic and economic decline is followed from the fifteenth century to a dramatic period of short-term crisis between 1518 and 1525. Attention is then focused on the traditional structure of the community: the life-cycles of the citizens are related to the intricate pattern of social positions within a multi-dimensional survey. The author illustrates how the occupants of this structure were depleted by crisis and decline, through devastating depopulation, the attrition of the male labour-force, and the failure of the population to reproduce itself. The results included an uncontrolled insurrectionary riot, the emergence of a radical programme for reform along very early 'Commonwealth' lines in the 1530s and, ultimately, the erosion of the old communal organisation and its ideals.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Charles Phythian-Adams EAN: 9780521525008 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 521 g HEIGHT: 218 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-06-27 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General WIDTH: 142 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Midlands, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Urban communities, Social and cultural history

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      This book is a contribution to both national and local history. Coventry is taken as a richly documented case-study of the crisis which marked the end of the medieval period for many substantial towns. Its demographic and economic decline is followed from the fifteenth century to a dramatic period of short-term crisis between 1518 and 1525. Attention is then focused on the traditional structure of the community: the life-cycles of the citizens are related to the intricate pattern of social positions within a multi-dimensional survey. The author illustrates how the occupants of this structure were depleted by crisis and decline, through devastating depopulation, the attrition of the male labour-force, and the failure of the population to reproduce itself. The results included an uncontrolled insurrectionary riot, the emergence of a radical programme for reform along very early 'Commonwealth' lines in the 1530s and, ultimately, the erosion of the old communal organisation and its ideals.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Charles Phythian-Adams EAN: 9780521525008 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 521 g HEIGHT: 218 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-06-27 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General WIDTH: 142 cm SPINE:

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      Midlands, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Urban communities, Social and cultural history

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