Synopses & Reviews
Examining the nature and diversity of urban life during the 16th and 17th centuries-- a period of considerable economic, political and social change-- this text stresses the extent to which towns remained distinct from their rural hinterlands.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Frameworks The urban economy
Government
Elites
Social horizons
Religion and society
Part 2: The challenges of change
The urban fabric
Poverty and poor belief
Order and disorder