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English small towns and the emergence of capitalist relations, c. 1450–1550

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2001

Spencer Dimmock
Spencer Dimmock
Affiliation:
22 Highbury Road, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, BS23 2DN
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Abstract

This paper seeks to extend the knowledge of small-town structures and of conflict in late medieval urban society by utilizing the unusual survival of a variety of sources for the English small town of Lydd in Kent. The main focus is an analysis of conflicts over capitalizing enclosure in Lydd in the mid-fifteenth century from which it then seeks to generalize, and to implicate towns in the feudalism to capitalism debate previously overwhelmingly confined to rural society.

Type
Research Article
Information
Urban History , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , May 2001 , pp. 5 - 24
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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