Decline and Growth in English Towns, 1400–1640

Dyer, Alan

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“…It has, however, been a period of intense debate by historians, particularly within the field of economic history. Our focus here is the towns and, for brevity, it is only necessary to provide a brief summary of the key points of contention (for a more detailed review see Dyer 1991; Jervis 2016b).…”

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“…Scholars such as Bridbury (1981; 1984) and Tittler (1984) cite evidence for urban building projects and a growth in the proportion of taxation received from towns between the 14th and 16th centuries as a sign of urban buoyancy. Comparative analyses of historical records (Saul 1982; Bailey 1993; Dyer 1991; 2000) and archaeological evidence (Jervis 2016b; 2017) suggest that fortunes were mixed, with some towns prospering and others suffering for a variety of reasons, but particularly in relation to regional economies. The concept of decline itself can be questioned; we would expect urban populations to fall, but this need not be indicative of decline (Reynolds 1980; Palliser 1988, 2).…”

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Assemblage urbanism. Becoming urban in late medieval Southampton

Jervis¹

2018

Arch. Dial.

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It is proposed that assemblage theory offers the possibility of exploring archaeological evidence in innovative ways, in order to write alternative narratives of urban development. By combining historical and archaeological scholarship with work in contemporary urban geography, it is proposed that the concept of urban decline in the later Middle Ages is problematic and a more fruitful alternative approach would be to focus on the transformation of urban assemblages. These ideas are explored by drawing upon archaeological evidence from Southampton, UK.

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Assemblage urbanism. Becoming urban in late medieval Southampton

Jervis¹

2018

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“…By 1500, many towns having suffered a significant and long-term reduction in population following the Black Death, street trading had declined and a smaller number of more substantial businesses operated largely from permanent premises. 29 Low security, problems of food hygiene, and the more general movement from crowded public living towards greater privacy, also contributed to the decline of the street market as a major setting for the sale and purchase of goods.…”

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The Shop within?: An Analysis of the Architectural Evidence for Medieval Shops

Clark¹

2000

Architectural History

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It is now almost forty years since W. A. Pantin wrote that ‘the origin and history of the medieval English shop is … a subject which badly needs investigation.’ Since then, although the study of vernacular buildings has become respectable, shops seldom appeared as a subject in textbook indices or, until recently, as a separate topic in bibliographies. Part of the reason, understandably, is that much of the architectural evidence has been obliterated. Few original shopfronts remain; internal features have long since been removed. However, buildings which can be shown to have contained shops — either workshops or retail spaces — in medieval times (taken as broadly the period from 1100 to 1500) can be found in many towns and cities in England. They range from simple one-room lock-ups to substantial multi-storey jettied buildings, from a room in a merchant’s house to whole rows of workshops associated with basic living accommodation. While it is dangerous to draw quantitative conclusions from the evidence of such survivals, they can, with the help of documentary sources, shed some light on how spaces were used. The purpose of this paper is to offer an interpretation of the medieval shop as a place where goods and money were exchanged, as a contribution to the better understanding of surviving structures.

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“…Another means by which parliament sought to reduce the financial burden of the parishes tax was its stipulation that the government reassess the wealth of urban churches, valuations for which were fixed according to assessments undertaken in 1291 for clerical tenths . The logic here was that there would have been a significant reduction, in most urban areas, in the post‐Black Death wealth of benefices, because of the urban demographic and economic contraction of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries . Significantly, no reassessments were called for with regard to rural churches.…”

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The English parishes and knights' fees tax of 1428: a study in fiscal politics and administration

Brayson

2016

Hist Res

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This article is the first detailed examination of the English parishes and knights' fees tax of 1428, based upon parliamentary and exchequer material. It demonstrates that the house of commons insisted upon granting this novel tax, in place of a more financially burdensome fifteenth and tenth, during the financial crisis of 1427–8. The parishes and knights' fees tax was efficiently administered, notwithstanding some local complications, although its yield was not commensurate with the scale of the crown's financial needs by the late fourteen‐twenties. This provides a unique insight into the origins of the well‐documented late Lancastrian fiscal crisis.

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Decline and Growth in English Towns, 1400–1640

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Assemblage urbanism. Becoming urban in late medieval Southampton

Assemblage urbanism. Becoming urban in late medieval Southampton

The Shop within?: An Analysis of the Architectural Evidence for Medieval Shops

The English parishes and knights' fees tax of 1428: a study in fiscal politics and administration

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