The Creation of a Community
The City of Wells in the Middle Ages
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 8 July 1993
- ISBN 9780198204015
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 223x144x26 mm
- Weight 579 g
- Language English
- Illustrations figures, tables 0
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This is the first scholarly history of the city of Wells in the Middle Ages. David Gary Shaw makes full use of the rich archives of Wells to trace its growth from a rural manor into the prosperous borough it became by the late twelfth century. Dr Shaw examines the variety of trades which flourished in Wells - including tanning, glove-making, and cloth-manufacture - and analyses the composition of the burgess community. He also explores the importance of the family, the extent of social mobility, the position of women, and the roles of conviviality on the one hand and religion on the other in shaping communal activity and communal spirit. Dr Wells makes full use of the rich archives of Wells to present in vivid and telling detail the anatomy of a medieval borough.
'Here is a valuable addition to the small corpus of modern monographs devoted to individual English towns in the medieval period. Shaw writes shrewdly about 'community', conscious of the voguish and treacherous nature of the concept. Shaw's book, while acknowledging the gap between pious ideal and reality, goes far to demonstrate the practical and ideological impact on one medieval urban society of that communitarian discourse.'
Gervase Rosser, The Ricardian, X, No. 126, Sept 1994
