Medieval London: Collected Papers of Caroline M. Barron (Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture)

Edited by Martha Carlin and Joel T. Rosenthal. Caroline Barron is the foremost scholar of medieval London and she has made her impact through a series of major articles touching the politics, guilds, and people of the City. This collection of eighteen revised and updated papers deal with the Crown and the City; parish, church and religious culture; people of late-medieval London (including Richard Whittington) and the intellectual and cultural world of a city that soon grew into one of the most important in Europe and the world. Acknowledgements Maps and Plates Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Crown and City Chapter 1. The Tyranny of Richard II Chapter 2. The Quarrel of Richard II with London, 1392–7 Chapter 3. London and the Crown, 1451–61 Chapter 4. The Deposition of Richard II Chapter 5. Richard II and London Part II: Parish, Church, and Religious Culture Chapter 6. The Parish Fraternities of Medieval London Chapter 7. London and St Paul’s Cathedral in the Later Middle Ages Chapter 8. The Travelling Saint: Zita of Lucca and England Chapter 9. The Will as Autobiography: The Case of Thomas Salter, Priest, Died November 1558 Part III: The People of Medieval London Chapter 10. Richard Whittington: The Man Behind the Myth Chapter 11. Ralph Holland and the London Radicals, 1438–1444 Chapter 12. The 'Golden Age' of Women in Medieval London Chapter 13. Johanna Hill (d. 1441) and Johanna Sturdy (d. c. 1460), Bell-Founders Chapter 14. The Child in Medieval London: The Legal Evidence Part IV: The Intellectual and Cultural World Chapter 15. Centres of Conspicuous Consumption: The Aristocratic Townhouse in London, 1200–1550 Chapter 16. The Expansion of Education in Fifteenth-Century London Chapter 17. Chivalry, Pageantry and Merchant Culture in Medieval London Chapter 18. The Political Culture of Medieval London Publications by Caroline M. Barron Index Caroline M. Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London's role as medieval England's political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and religious cultures that shaped the lives of its inhabitants. This collection of eighteen papers focuses on four themes: crown and city; parish, church, and religious culture; the people of medieval London; and the city's intellectual and cultural world. They represent essential reading on the history of one of the world's greatest cities by its foremost scholar. Caroline Barron is the foremost scholar of medieval London and she has made her impact through a series of major articles touching the politics, gilds, and people of the City. This collection of twenty revised and updated papers deal with the Crown and the City; parish church, and religious culture; people of late-medieval London (including Richard Whittington), and the intellectual and cultural world of a city that soon grew into one of the most important in Europe and the world "Caroline Barron is the foremost scholar of medieval London and she has made her impact through a series of major articles revised and updated here"--Provided by publisher.