Lordship and the Urban Community
Durham and its Overlords, 1250-1540
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 17 November 2005
- ISBN 9780521022859
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 217x140x20 mm
- Weight 426 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The book examines the subsequent developments in religious and military building work on the peninsula which accompanied the growth of a successful urban community in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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The city of Durham, although geographically far removed from the centre of political power in England in the later medieval period, was of great strategic and ecclesiastical importance during its early history. It was the seat of the prince bishops, a military headquarters for the defence of the northern borders of England, a centre for pilgrimages to the shrine of St Cuthbert and the principal market town for the region. After tracing Durham's late tenth-century origins, the book examines the subsequent developments in religious and military building work on the peninsula which accompanied the growth of a successful urban community in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. This section of the book is complemented by the reproduction of all the extant medieval plans for Durham in an appendix, which also includes later maps of the town and several illustrations which help to explain the complex topography. Furthermore, although at first sight Durham's overlords might seem oppressive, there is little evidence of the townsmen's dissatisfaction with their rule, and none of urban revolt in late medieval Durham.
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Laurence the monk of Durham, c.1140; Introduction; 1. Urban origins: the growth and development of Durham to 1250; 2. The urban landscape of Durham 1250-1540; 3. Durham's medieval buildings; 4. Landlord and tenants: the economic relationship between Durham priory and its urban tenants in the later middle ages; 5. Trades and occupations; 6. Lordship in action: the maintenance of law and order in late-medieval Durham; Conclusion; Appendices, Bibliography; Index.
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