The Creation of a Community
The City of Wells in the Middle Ages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3473568 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joel T Rosenthal, David G Shaw (0000-0001-8914-2862) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 286 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/206623 |
| OpenAlex | W2071116697 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
Introduction - the appeal of the small town, community and the borough community, sources origins - the early Church, the development of the town the size of a small town - the physical city the smaller town in medieval Europe, the size of the population, population change - dilapidation and decayed rents, population change - the admissions list, migration, relative size economy - occupational structure, clothmaking - participation, organization of the industry, magnitude of the industry, Wells and its countryside, trade, labour, conclusion - qualifying urban decline the balance of authority - the burgesses' power circa 1300, the moment of crisis, the community's resources, the accommodation the social history of the borough community 1377-1500 - membership, socio-economic composition, participation and office-holding, trades and power, oligarchy the culture of the borough community 1377-1520 - the community ideal, order and tradition, the fraternal ideal, unity, virtues and vices, the institutions of community, initiation, conviviality, manifestations of unity, peacemaking, arbitration the social world completed - the foreigners - a neglected social category, economic and political situation, poverty, the scope of poverty, women the culture of the Church - the cathedral, the parish, the parish guilds, chantry and community, prayer, alms - the giving, education, new lives, heterodoxy and control conclusion - the complexity of small things. Appendices: Wells' bishops stewards and masters of Wells borough community
Family, lineage and dynasty in the late medieval city
Urban conflict and legal strategy in medieval England
The Black Death in English towns
The functions and fortunes of English small towns at the close of the middle ages
Piped water supplies managed by civic bodies in medieval English towns
Witchcraft and Conflicting Visions of the Ideal Village Community
Missing Women
Civic Portraiture and Political Culture in English Provincial Towns, ca. 1560–1640
Growth and recession in the fifteenth-century economy
Ritual, Space, and Authority in Seventeenth-Century English Cathedral Cities
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2019 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |