{"product_id":"9780521525008","title":"Desolation of a City","description":"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.","brand":"Charles Phythian-Adams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45780130660670,"sku":"9780521525008","price":2781.15,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780521525008_61745d46-d129-4b46-94cd-bac473b2e447.jpg?v=1707291612","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780521525008","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}