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David Nicholas.
The Growth of the Medieval City: from Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century.
Published: Harlow: Longman, 1997.
Series: History of Urban Society in Europe.
ISBN 0582299071;
ISBN-13: 9780582299078.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in Singapore.
Size: 140x222x28mm.
Page count: xviii,413pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy is stamped as ‘damaged’ on its title page (exact wording is ‘This book was slightly damaged in transit and is now being sold at a special bargain price’); dustjacket a bit scuffed with some wear at its edges and corners; top outside corner of front board is bumped resulting in some noticeable wrinkling but no apparent structural damage; some lesser bumps and dinks elsewhere; page edges a little grubby; looks in reasonable order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £20.00
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[Publisher’s price for paperback £48.99]
Weight without packaging: 678g.

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Contents: Urban legacy of Antiquity; Suburbanisation & deurbanisation in Merovingian & Carolingian Gaul, 500-830; Scandinavian & Muslim attacks & revival of urban life in the west, 830-1000; From seigniorial to economic urbanisation — landowning; Urban law & government in the 11th & 12th cc.; Expansion of cities in the 13th c.; North European cities in the 13th c.; Commercial cities of the 13th c.; Merchant as craftsman, magnate as guildsman — transformation of the medieval city, c.1270-c.1325.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: 19
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: 35pp
Index: yes 

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