Desolation of a city: Coventry and the urban crisis of the late middle ages
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Autor: Phythian-Adams, Charles
Jahr: 1979
Contents
Frontispiece page iv
List of tables xi
List of illustrations xiii
Preface xv
Abbreviations xix
Introduction 1
Part I: An urban panorama 5
Part II: Desolation of a city 31
1 The tempo of decline 33
2 The hastening of decline 40
3 Crisis 1518-25 51
Part III: Anatomy of a city 69
4 Introductory 71
5 The working context 74
6 Formal groups (i) The household 80
7 Formal groups (ii) The craft fellowship 99
8 Formal groups (iii) Gilds and councils 118
9 Formal groups and the citizen s life-cycle 125
10 Informal groupings (i) Social stratification 128
11 Justifications of obedience 137
12 Social mobility 142
13 Informal groupings (ii) The extended family 148
14 Informal groupings (iii) Social topography 158
15 Mirrors of a community 170
16 Conclusion on social structure 180
Part IV: An anatomy deformed 185
17 Introductory 187
x Contents
(A) A penury of people 189
18 The depopulation of households 1520-3 189
19 The distribution of the people 199
20 Servants and the economy 204
21 Children and the future 221
22 Coventry and the size of the late medieval urban
household 238
(B) The distortion of the social structure 249
23 Violence and structural stress 1520-5 249
24 Matters for reform: the 1530s 258
25 Institutional and social change 269
26 Medieval mirrors shattered 275
Part V: Coventry and the urban crisis of the late middle ages 279
Appendices 291
1 The 1523 enumeration 291
2 The ward listings of 1520 and 1523: the problems of
analysis 295
3 Various overall distributions of persons and house-
holds by wards in 1523 306
4 Suggested adjustments and estimated revisions 321
5 A note on the topography of late medieval Coventry as
shown on map 1 323
Bibliography of sources cited 325
Index 339
Tables
1 Numbers of families in 25 small towns in 1563 page 8
2 Numbers of families in eight small county towns in
1563 9
3 The largest towns in late medieval England 12
4 Numbers of references to various places in different
statute merchant transactions at Coventry 27
5 Numbers of persons for whom mortuary payments are
recorded 1517-27 53
6 Harvest prices 1516-24 56
7 Comparative figures for the membership of masters in
select crafts 103
8 The career-cycle of the successful citizen through the
formal institutions of the city 126
9 The social stratification of Coventry c. 1520 131
10 Crude results by wards for populations and population
changes 1520-3; and for households and vacant houses
in 1523 190
11 Occupations of dislodged householders: 1522-3 192
12 Measures of vulnerability 194
13 Sex ratios (M per 100 F) 200
14 Proportions of householders by marital status 202
15 Household composition by marital statuses of heads 203
16 Percentages of servant-keeping households with 1
or 4+ servants 205
17 Servants according to ward ranking 206
18 Servants by occupational categories 208
19 Servants: sex and replacement ratios by occupational
categories and some specific trades within them 210
20 Quinquennial totals of apprentices indentured to the
Carpenters Craft 215
21 Percentages of children and servants in populations:
select European and English communities 221
22 Children and servants as percentages of each ward s
population 222
23 Children : factors affecting distributions and sizes of
groups
224
230
242
xii List of tables
24 Percentage distributions and mean sizes of sibling
groups by occupational categories and some
specific trades 227
25 Number of adult males in Gosford Street ward
1523-34
26 Reproduction ratios by wards 232
27 Percentages of households containing numbers of
children: Rheims and Coventry 233
28 Percentages of children in groups: Coventry and
100 English communities 233
29 Sizes and composition of households by rental cate-
gories etc. 239
30 Sizes and composition of households by categories of
goods 241
31 Sizes of households by wealth of occupational
categories
32 Comparative distributions of households by numbers
of persons in medieval Europe and pre-industrial
England 246
Tables in the appendices
33 Crude population figures and percentage changes by
wards 1520-3 (before and after adjustments to the
1523 figures) 298
34 Estimated turnover of households between 1520 and
1523 compared with the evidence for vacant housing 301
35 Turnover of households in four wards 1522-3 303
36 Distributions of persons by household status, and pro-
portions contributed to every category by each ward 306
37 Distributions of households and persons according to
household size (Coventry and 91 later communities) 308
38 Distributions of occupational categories and specific
trades by wards 311
39 Overall occupational structure by householders suc-
cessfully labelled 316
40 Distributions of rental categories etc. by wards from
conflation with the 1522 assessment 316
List of illustrations xiii
41 Distributions of goods categories by wards from confla-
tion with the 1522 assessment and the 1524 subsidy
return 318
42 Proportions of children and servants as a cross-check on
suggested population adjustments 321
Illustrations
Maps
1 Late medieval Coventry page xxii
2 The position of Coventry in relation to all Midland towns
containing 200 or more families in 1523-63 23
Figures
1 Rent lost by the Corpus Christi Gild from void unset
tenements, expressed (to the nearest shilling) as a per-
centage of the total possible rental for each year from
Dec. 1487/8 to Dec. 1526/7 37
2 Ward-ranking by proportions of householders in each
ward paying specific categories of rents in 1522-3 164
3 Ratios of persons by wards, in 1520 and 1523, to every
inhabited house, whether freehold or valued at over
12s. rent p.a. in 1522 297
Plates
I Substantial housing in Bailey Lane 70
II Modest houses inside Cook Street Gate 186
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