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Lordship and the urban community: Durham and its overlords 1250-1540

Margaret Bonney 1990 © Cambridge University Press
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  • 9780511097508 (ebook)
  • 9780521022859 (paper)
  • 9780521362870 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: 400-1400
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements (page xi)
  • List of abbreviations (page xiii)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 1)
  • 1 URBAN ORIGINS: THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF DURHAM TO 1250 (page 9)
    • The origins of Durham
    • The growth and development of Durham to c. 1250
  • 2 THE URBAN LANDSCAPE OF DURHAM 1250-1540 (page 37)
    • Suburban development: the boroughs
    • River, bridges and mills
    • The streets
    • Tenements, messuages and burgages
  • 3 DURHAM'S MEDIEVAL BUILDINGS (page 75)
    • Domestic buildings
    • Public buildings: guild halls, borough court houses and bakehouses
  • 4 LANDLORD AND TENANTS: THE ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DURHAM PRIORY AND ITS URBAN TENANTS IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES (page 104)
    • The fluctuations of urban rents
    • The costs of maintaining an urban estate
  • 5 TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS (page 145)
    • The range of trades and industries in medieval Durham
    • The Occupational topography of late-medieval Durham
    • The Durham market
    • Merchants and craftsmen: origins, wealth and social status
    • Craft organisation
    • The Durham economy in a national context
  • 6 LORDSHIP IN ACTION: THE MAINTENANCE OF LAW AND ORDER IN LATE-MEDIEVAL DURHAM (page 195)
    • The local courts of Durham
    • The personnel of the Durham courts
    • The business of the Durham courts
    • Fines and other punishments
  • CONCLUSION. LORDSHIP AND COMMUNITY: THE RELATIONS BETWEEN DURHAM AND ITS ECCLESIASTICAL OVERLORDS IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES (page 229)
  • Appendix 1 Maps and plans of Durham (page 237)
    • 1 John Speed's plan of Durham, 1611
    • 2 John Wood's plan of Durham, 1820
    • 3 Durham in c. 1250
    • 4 Reconstruction of tenements in Crossgate, Alvertongate and Milneburngate, Old Borough
    • 5 Tenement boundaries in New Elvet, 1439-c. 1442
    • 6 Plan of the south-east corner of Durham market place, c. 1567-8
    • 7 Plan of Durham's fortifications, c. 1400
    • 8 Plan of Durham castle
    • 9 The site and geology of Durham
    • 10 Late-medieval Durham: bridges and mills
    • 11 Scaltok Mill, c. 1440-5
  • Appendix 2 Tables (page 261)
    • 1 The income of the bursar from Durham rents, 1270-1539
    • 2 The growth of the hostillar's estate in Durham, c. 1300-1480: income received from the farms of Old and New Elvet
    • 3 The growth of the hostillar's estate in Durham: acquisitions of land, 1383-1512
    • 4 The income of the almoner from Durham rents, 1290-1537
    • 5 Rent arrears and decayed rents in the Durham estates of the bursar, the hostillar and the almoner, 1325-1533
    • 6 Waste rents in the Durham estates of the bursar, the hostillar and the almoner, 1352-1515
    • 7 Trades and crafts mentioned in Durham deeds pre-1300
    • 8 Trades and crafts mentioned in Durham deeds, 1300-1400
    • 9 Trades and crafts mentioned in Durham deeds, 1400-1500
  • Appendix 3 The dates of the bishops of Durham from 995 to the Dissolution (page 273)
  • Appendix 4 The obedientiaries of Durham Priory (page 277)
  • Appendix 5 The Durham courts (page 283)
  • Bibliography (page 285)
  • Index (page 295)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 97.2 (Apr. 1992): 538 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199204%2997%3A2%3C538%3ALATUCD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8
EHR 44.1 (Feb. 1991): 172-173 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-0117%28199102%292%3A44%3A1%3C172%3ALATUCD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
SP 66.1 (Jan. 1991): 123-125 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-0117%28199102%292%3A44%3A1%3C172%3ALATUCD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
JBRS 30.4 (Oct. 1991): 449-454 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9371%28199110%2930%3A4%3C449%3ALALIME%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
ENHR 108.429 (Oct. 1993): 1007 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28199310%29108%3A429%3C1007%3ALATUCD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q
JIH 22.4 (Spring 1992): 725-727 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28199221%2922%3A4%3C725%3ALATUCD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P
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