Richardson explores how a powerful culture of writing was created in late medieval London, even though initially few inhabitants could actually write themselves

The Black Death that arrived in the spring of 1348 eventually killed nearly half of England's population. In its long aftermath, wages in London rose in respons

Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London presents linked microhistorical studies of five London parishes, using their own parish records to reconstruct t

Offering snapshots of mercantile devotion to saints in different regions, this volume is the first to ask explicitly how merchants invoked saints, and why. Desp

An examination of the growth of civic power in the turbulent arena of late medieval London. In the late fourteenth century, London's government, through mismana