{"product_id":"desolation-of-a-city-coventry-and-the-urban-crisis-of-the-late-middle-ages-past-and-present-publications-0521525004","title":"Desolation of a City: Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages (Past and Present Publications)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521525004\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Phythian-Adams, Charles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a contribution to both national and local history. Coventry is taken as a richly documented case-study of the crisis which marked the end of the medieval period for many substantial towns. Its demographic and economic decline is followed from the fifteenth century to a dramatic period of short-term crisis between 1518 and 1525. Attention is then focused on the traditional structure of the community: the life-cycles of the citizens are related to the intricate pattern of social positions within a multi-dimensional survey. The author illustrates how the occupants of this structure were depleted by crisis and decline, through devastating depopulation, the attrition of the male labour-force, and the failure of the population to reproduce itself. The results included an uncontrolled insurrectionary riot, the emergence of a radical programme for reform along very early 'Commonwealth' lines in the 1530s and, ultimately, the erosion of the old communal organisation and its ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51941663801632,"sku":"NEW0521525004","price":85.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/desolation-of-a-city-coventry-and-the-urban-crisis-of-the-late-middle-ages-past-and-present-publications-0521525004","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}