London and beyond: Essays in honour of Derek Keene
Matthew Davies (Editor), James A. Galloway (Editor)
Series: IHR Conference Series
Published in association with: Institute of Historical Research
This fascinating new volume brings together seventeen authors from across disciplines to offer a detailed and comprehensive history of the European city. Dedicated to the late Derek Keene (1942-2021), the forefather of urban history, this book helps us better understand the development, role and allure of the metropolis throughout history, from medieval times to the 20th century. The chapters offered posit the city as a centre for innovation and political might juxtaposed against a sprawling, diverse community in constant flux. Therein we visit the high and lows of city dwelling, from the migrant population and London poor, to the judges and continental merchants trading in ‘exotic’ goods. “An exemplary volume” (Urban History), this is not one to be missed.
‘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.
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
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