London and beyond: Essays in honour of Derek Keene

1. Feeding another city: provisioning Dublin in the later middle ages Margaret Murphy

2. Did peasants need markets and towns? The experience of late medieval England Christopher Dyer

3. The proliferation of markets revisited Richard Britnell

4. ‘Tempests of weather and great abundance of water’: the flooding of the Barking marshes in the later middle ages James A. Galloway

5. A taste for the Orient? Cosmopolitan demand for ‘exotic’ durable consumables in late medieval Bruges Peter Stabel

6. Hartlib’s world Rob Ilie

7. Hiding in the forest … The Gilberts’ rural scientific instrument manufactory Anita McConnell

8. Houses and households in Cheapside, c.1500-1550 Vanessa Harding

9. ‘The poore lost a good Frend and the parish a good Neighbour’: the lives of the poor and their supporters in London’s eastern suburb, c.1583-c.1679 Philip Baker and Mark Merry

10. Between sea and city: portable communities in late medieval London and Bruges Erik Spindler

11. The kindness of strangers: charitable giving in the community of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Catherine Wright

12. Londoners and the court of common pleas in the fifteenth century Matthew Frank Stevens

A bibliography of the published writings of Derek Keene

Contents

I. Markets, hinterlands and environments

1 Feeding another city – provisioning Dublin in the later middle ages

Margaret Murphy

2 Did peasants need markets and towns in late medieval England?

Christopher Dyer

3 The proliferation of markets revisited

Richard Britnell

4 ‘Tempests of weather and great abundance of water’: the flooding of the Barking marshes in the later middle ages

James A. Galloway

II. Luxury, innovation and skill

5 A taste for the Orient? Cosmopolitan demand for ‘exotic’ durable consumables in late medieval Bruges

Peter Stabel

6 Hartlib’s world

Rob Iliffe

7 Hiding in the forest … The Gilberts’ rural scientific instrument manufactory

Anita McConnell

III. Suburbs, neighbourhoods and communities

8 Houses and households in Cheapside c.1500–1550
Vanessa Harding

9 ‘The poore lost a good Frend and the parish a good Neighbour’: the lives of the poor and their supporters in London’s eastern suburb, c.1583–c.1679

Philip Baker and Mark Merry

10 Between sea and city: portable communities in late medieval London and Bruges

Erik Spindler

11 The kindness of strangers: charitable giving in the community of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Catherine Wright

IV. Governance

12 Londoners and the court of common pleas in the fifteenth century

Matthew Frank Stevens

13 Crown, city and guild in late medieval London

Matthew Davies

14 Urban governments and their citizens in early modern Europe

Maarten Prak

15 Victoria Street in theory and practice: scenes from the governmentality of nineteenth-century London

Richard Dennis

16 Converging lines, dissecting circles: railways and the socialist ideal in London and Paris at the turn of the twentieth century

Carlos López Galviz

Bibliography of the published works of Derek Keene

Compiled by Olwen Myhill

PDF: 9781909646445

EPUB: 9781909646315

Hardback: 9781905165704 / 354 pages / 234mm x 156mm

Matthew Davies (Editor)

James A. Galloway (Editor)

‘One of the pioneer volumes in the handsomely produced new Institute of Historical Research Conference series, this book serves as a fitting tribute to one of the most influential urban historians of our time.‘ – Ian Archer, Urban History, May 2013.

Subject: British and Irish History, History

BISAC codes: HIS015000, HIS016000

Thema codes: NHD

Keywords: Bruges, Early Modern Communities, Medieval Dublin, Medieval Markets, Social History, Urban history, medieval London