Medieval London

Collected Papers of Caroline M. Barron

Caroline M. Barron is Emeritus Professor of the History of London at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research relates particularly to the late-medieval history of the City of London, the reign of Richard II, and the history of women. Martha Carlin is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she specializes in urban social life, including correspondence, food, and shopping. Joel Rosenthal is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Stony Brook University, New York. He is a specialist in medieval prosopography and English social and family history.

Book cover: Medieval London

Extent: 618 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(November 2017)

ISBN: 9781580442565

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $129.00

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(November 2017)

ISBN: 9781580442572

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~ENG~Caroline Barron is the world’s leading authority on the history of medieval London and she has made her impact through a series of major articles revised and updated here.


Caroline M. Barron is the world’s leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London’s role as medieval England’s political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and religious cultures that shaped the lives of its inhabitants. This collection of eighteen papers focuses on four themes: crown and city; parish, church, and religious culture; the people of medieval London; and the city’s intellectual and cultural world. They represent essential reading on the history of one of the world’s greatest cities by its foremost scholar.

Crown and City 
1. The Tyranny of Richard II
2. The Quarrel of Richard II with London, 1392-7
3. London and the Crown, 1451-61
4. The Deposition of Richard II
5. Richard II and London
Parish, Church, and Religious Culture
6. The Parish Fraternities of Medieval London
7. London and St. Paul's Cathedral in the Later Middle Ages
8. The Travelling Saint: Zita of Lucca and England
9. The Will as Autobiography: The Case of Thomas Salter, Priest, Died November 1558
The People of Medieval London 
10. Richard Whittington: The Man behind the Myth
11. Ralph Holland and the London Radicals: 1438-1444
12. The "Golden Age" of Women in Medieval London
13. Johanna Hill (d. 1441) and Johanna Sturdy (d. c. 1460), Bell-Founders
14. The Child in Medieval London: The Legal Evidence
The Intellectual & Cultural World
15. Centres of Conspicuous Consumption: The Aristocratic Townhouse in London, 1200-1550
16. The Expansion of Education in Fifteenth-Century London
17. Chivalry, Pageantry and Merchant Culture in Medieval London
18. The Political Culture of Medieval London
  • Edited by Caroline Barron
  • Edited by Martha Carlin
  • Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal