Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe

by Miri Rubin

Book Overview

Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 and 1500. Some city-states enjoyed considerable autonomy which allowed them to legislate on how newcomers might settle and become citizens in support of a common good. Such communities invited bankers, merchants, physicians, notaries and judges to settle and help produce good urban living. Dynastic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108740537
• ISBN13: 9781108740531
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 8.9"