Cities of Strangers - Making Lives in Medieval Europe

Explores how medieval towns and cities received newcomers, and the process by which these 'strangers' became 'neighbours' between 1000 and 1500.

List of contents

1. Cities and their strangers; 2. Strangers into neighbours; 3. Jews: familiar strangers; 4. Women: sometimes strangers in their cities; Conclusion.

About the author

Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, where she specialises in European history between the eleventh and sixteenth-centuries. She is the author of, most recently, Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (2009), The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages (2005) and The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction (2014). She has made numerous media appearances including the radio programmes In Our Time and Making History for BBC Radio 4.

Summary

Examining how 'strangers' - settling newcomers as well as settled ethnic and religious minorities - were treated in urban communities between 1000 and 1500, Cities of Strangers explores pathways to citizenship and arrangements for those unlikely to become citizens during a period of formative urban growth and its aftermath in medieval Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Miri Rubin, Miri (Queen Mary University of London) Rubin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108481236
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48123-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: The Wiles Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Urban communities, European history: medieval period, middle ages