Towns in Decline, AD 100–1600 113827285X, 9781138272859
Many European towns have experienced loss of population, degradation of physical structure and profound economic change
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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of tables and figures
Notes on contributors
Preface
1 What is urban decline: desolation, decay and destruction, or an opportunity?
Part I Late-Roman and Early-Medieval Urban Decline
2 Change and decline in late Romano-British towns
3 Construction and deconstruction: reconstructing the late-Roman townscape
4 Urban failures in late-antique Gaul
5 Wroxeter and the transformation of late-Roman urbanism
6 The decline of the Wic?
7 Urban development and decline on the central Danube, 100–1600
Part II Late-Medieval Urban Decline
8 Decolonization and the dynamics of urban decline in Ireland, 1300–1550
9 The rise and fall of the medieval town in Wales
10 Archaeology and the late-medieval urban decline
11 Decline or decay? Urban landscapes in late-medieval England
12 ‘Urban decline’ in England, 1377–1525
13 The political economy of urban decline in the Renaissance
Index
