These references were collected by Stephen Alsford 1998 and 1999.
1. General information
- The Urban
Past: An International Urban History Bibliography. IV The Medieval City
(a very general introduction to distinguishing
features of medieval European towns)
- Medieval
Sourcebook: The Rise of Towns
- The
Middle Ages -- Town Life
- The Medieval
Fiefdom
(includes brief, general sections related to
towns: The Fortification of the Town Walls, The Town Church and Its Effect
on the People, The Medieval Craftsman, The Town Merchants)
- English
medieval boroughs: privileged urban communities
- Medieval
Domestic Life
(a large number of brief articles, many broadly
relevant to aspects of borough society)
- Morphological
Regions in English Medieval Towns
- A
Survey of the History of English Place\255names
- Medieval
Towns
(a brief Marxist interpretation, part of a much
larger page on Historical Materialism)
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Coinage Regulations, c. 902-925
-
Medieval
Sourcebook: The Laws of London, 978
(regulations concerning minting in towns)
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Statuta de Mercatoribus (Statutes of Merchants),
11 Edw. I (1283) & 13 Edw. I (1285)
- Medieval
Guilds and Economics
(several brief articles broadly relevant to
aspects of borough economy)
-
The
Rise of Capitalism, ca. 1300-1500: The Guild System
- The
Symbiosis of Towns and Textiles: Urban Institutions and the Changing
Fortunes of Cloth Manufacturing in the Low Countries and England,
1280 - 1570
- Dominion
and Domination of the Gentle Sex: The Lives of Medieval Women -- The
Marketplace
(on the role of women in trade and
commerce)
- The
Jews in Medieval Society
(rough notes for a lecture, with special emphasis
on the Jewish community in Norwich)
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Concerning Loans From The Jews
- Domesday
Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England
(Maitland's classic study of English social structure and administration in the decades under the Norman-Angevin kings)
- Market Towns and
the Countryside in Late Medieval England
- Price-setting in
English Borough Markets, 1349-1500
- The Rise and Fall
of Markets in Southeast England
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Reginald of Durham: Life of St. Goderic [12th Cent]
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Roger of Hoveden: The Persecution of Jews, 1189
2. Particular English towns
a) LONDON
- Corporation of
London: History and Heritage
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Leges Edwardis Confessoris: The Liberties of London, c. 1120
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Grant of Tax Liberties to London, 1133
- Medieval
Sourcebook: List of Tolls Exacted at Billingsgate, c.978-1016
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Grants of Privileges at London to the Hanse of Cologne,
1157-1194
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Grant of a New Fair at Westminster, 1248
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Grant to London Abolishing the Weavers' Gild, 1202
- Articles of
the Cordwainers, 1375
- Family
Strategies in Medieval London: Financial Planning and the Urban Widow,
1123-1473
- Narratives
of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England
(considers London evidence)
- The
Social Position of the Surgeon in London, 1350-1450
- Games
Played in Medieval London
- Lease
granted to Geoffrey Chaucer in 1374
b) SOUTHERN AND WESTERN ENGLAND
- Medieval
Dartford
- The History of
Canterbury
- Sandwich
Studies
- The Cinque Ports
- The History of
Hastings
- Hastings Town
- A Short
History of Guildford
- Medieval
Town Planning: Winchester, England
- Medieval
Sourcebook: The Law of the Fullers & Weavers of Winchester, 1209
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Southampton Guild Organization, 14th Century
- Salisbury - The
Cathedral City
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Documents of the Church of Salisbury in the Early 13th Century
- Mediaeval
Shepton Mallet: 1100-1450
(not strictly a medieval borough, but an
example of a small market town)
- Bristol: The
Old City
- An
anthology of Chancery English: Bristol Deposition
c) EASTERN ENGLAND
- Norwich, the
Old City
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Thomas of Monmouth: The Life and Miracles of St. William of
Norwich, 1173
- The Catholic
Encyclopedia: St. William of Norwich
- Great
Yarmouth History (Crisp)
- Yarmouth
Archaeology, 1990
- Palmer's
Perlustration of Great Yarmouth
- Some
Background on the Life of Margery Kempe
(resident of medieval Lynn)
- Excerpts from
The Book of Margery Kempe
-
Mapping
Margery Kempe: A Guide to Late Medieval and Spiritual Life
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Charter of Privileges Granted to Men of Dunwich, 1200
- St. Edmundsbury: The
History of the Borough
- Medieval
Sourcebook: A Dispute Over the Exaction of Taxes at Bury St. Edmunds, 1198
- Maldon: The First Two
Thousand Years
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Charter Granted to the Citizens of Cambridge, 1201
d) CENTRAL ENGLAND
- A History of the City
of Gloucester
- The Story of Oxford
- Oxfordshire County
Council: The Story of Oxford
- An anthology of Chancery English: Petition of the Weavers of Oxford
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Grant of a Gild to the Oxford Cordwainers, 1175
- An
anthology of Chancery English: Petition of the Weavers of Oxford
- History of the Town
and Manor of Hungerford
- General
History of Rugby
- Banbury
Historical Information
- Coventry History
- Coventry during the
Wars of the Roses
- Historical
Overview of Hereford
- Nottingham,
the City
- St.
Peter's parish, Nottingham
- The
Rectors of St. Peter's Church, Nottingham. Part One: 1241 - 1499
- Lincolnshire Lay
Subsidy, 1332
(includes entries for Boston and Stamford)
- History
of Lincoln: Medieval
- A Guide to
Life in Medieval Boston
e) NORTHERN ENGLAND
- Key
Moments in Chester's History
- York's
Heritage
- City
of York
- Thistled
own's
Library: History of York
- Secrets
Beneath Your Feet: Medieval York c. AD 1067 - c. 1550
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Ephraim of Bonn: The York Massacre 1189-90
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Charter Granted to Men of Beverley, 1130
- History
of Durham City
3. Selected sites related to medieval cities outside of England
- Sigtuna -
Royal Stronghold and Early Town
- Tales
from Froissart: Urban Unrest
- L'histoire de
Paris
- Philip-Augustu
s'
Paris: the wall and the city
- Carcassonne:
One town, One Medieval walled City...One Shared History
- Medieval
Cities, Bruges and Florence
- The
Statutes of the Commune of Bugelle (Biella) and the Documents Which Have
Been Added, part 1
-
The
End of Europe's Middle Ages: Italy's City-States
- The
Statutes of the Commune of Bugelle (Biella) and the Documents Which Have
Been Added, part 2
- The
Evolution of the Statutes of Bologna in the 13th Century
- Medieval
Sourcebook: The Garment Cutters of Stendal: Guild Law Revision, 1231
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Lübeck and Hamburg Treaty, 1241
- Giovanni
Villani: Florentine Chronicle
- Christine
de Pizan: The Treasure of the City of Ladies, or, The Book of the Three
Virtues. Of the wives of artisans and how they ought to conduct themselves.
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Bartolo of Sassoferrato, Treatise on City Government, c. 1330
- A
Medieval Response to Municipal Pollution
- Paris: Urban Sanitation
Before the 20th Century (1200-1789)
- Plague
and Public Health in Renaissance Europe