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The Medieval City.
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By Norman Pounds.
Greenwood Press, 2005.
The Growth of the Medieval City: From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century.
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By David M. Nicholas.
Routledge, 2014.
The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500.
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By David Nicholas.
Routledge, 2014.
The Medieval City State: An Essay on Tyranny and Federation in the Later Middle Ages.
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By Maude Violet Clarke.
Routledge, 2016. First published 1926.
Medieval Urban Culture.
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Edited by Andrew Brown and Jan Dumolyn.
Brepols, 2017.
Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade .
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By Henri Pirenne. Translated by Frank D. Halsey.
Princeton University Press, 2014.
City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400-1500: A Comparative Approach.
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Edited by Els Rose, Robert Flierman, and Merel de Bruin-van de Beek.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe.
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By Miri Rubin.
Cambridge UP, 2020.
Towns and Their Territories Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
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Edited by G.P. Brogiolo, N. Gauthier, and N. Christie.
Brill, 2000.
Urban Hierarchy: The Interaction Between Towns and Cities in Europe in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times.
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Edited by Maria Asenjo-Gonzalez, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, and Andrea Zorzi.
Brepols, 2021.
Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age.
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Edited by Albrecht Classen.
De Gruyter, 2009.
Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy.
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By Caroline Goodson.
Cambridge UP, 2021.
Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
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By Mateusz Fafinsk and Jakob Riemenschneider.
Cambridge UP, 2023.
Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities.
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By Martha C. Howell.
University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Lords and Towns in Medieval Europe : The European Historic Towns Atlas Project.
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Edited by Anngret Simms and Howard B. Clarke.
Ashgate, 2015.
The Rise of Cities Revisited: Reflections on Adriaan Verhulst’s Vision of Urban Genesis and Developments in the Medieval Low Countries.
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Edited by Reinout Rutte and Bram Vannieuwenhuyze.
Brepols, 2024.
Cambridge Urban History of Britain, 600-1540.
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Edited by D. M. Palliser.
Cambridge UP, 2000.
The City in the Islamic World.
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Edited by Salma K. Jayyusi, Renata Holod, Attilio Petruccioli, and Andre Raymond.
Brill, 2008.
Alexandria
Trading Conflicts: Venetian Merchants and Mamluk Offficials in Late Medieval Alexandria.
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By Georg Christ.
Brill, 2012.
Athens
Athens.
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By James H. S. McGregor.
Harvard UP, 2014.
Baghdad
Baghdād: From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century.
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Edited by Jens Scheiner and Isabel Toral.
Brill, 2022.
Barcelona
Barcelona and Its Rulers, 1096-1291.
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By Stephen P. Bensch.
Cambridge UP, 1995.
The Hungry City: A Year in the Life of Medieval Barcelona.
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By Marie A. Kelleher.
Cornell UP, 2025.
Bologna
A Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Bologna.
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Edited by Sarah R. Blanshei.
Brill, 2017.
Constantinople
From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities.
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Edited by Nicholas S. M. Matheou, Theofili Kampianaki and Lorenzo M. Bondioli.
Brill, 2016.
Cordoba
Companion to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Cordoba: Capital of Roman Baetica and Caliphate of Al-Andalus.
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ISBN: 9789004524156
Edited by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Antonio Monterroso.
Brill, 2023.
Florence
Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante
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By George W. Dameron.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Forged in the Shadow of Mars: Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Florence.
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By Peter W. Sposato.
Cornell UP, 2022.
Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence.
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By John Henderson.
First published 1994. Clarendon Press, 2023.
Jerusalem
Wisdom’s House, Heaven’s Gate : Athens and Jerusalem in the Middle Ages.
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By Teresa Shawcross.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages.
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By Nicole Chareyron. Translated by Donald Wilson.
Colombia UP, 2005.
In Plain Sight: Muslims of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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By Ann E. Zimo.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.
London
Growing up in Medieval London : The Experience of Childhood in History.
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By Barbara A. Hanawalt.
Oxford UP, 1993.
Medieval London: From Commune to Capital.
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By Gwyn A. Williams.
Routledge, 2007.
Ceremony and Civility: Civic Culture in Late Medieval London.
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By Barbara A. Hanawalt.
Oxford UP, 2017.
London in the Later Middle Ages: Government and People, 1200-1500.
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By Caroline M. Barron.
Oxford UP, 2004.
The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London.
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By Barbara A. Hanawalt.
Oxford UP, 2007.
Middle-Class Writing in Late Medieval London
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By Malcolm Richardson.
Pickering & Chatto, 2010.
Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540.
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By Amy Appleford.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Sources of London English : Medieval Thames Vocabulary.
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By Laura Wright.
Clarendon Press, 2023.
Lubeck
Companion to Medieval Lubeck.
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Edited by Carsten Jahnke.
Brill, 2019.
Manresa
The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie: Manresa in the Later Middle Ages, 1250-1500.
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By Jeff Fynn-Paul.
Cambridge UP, 2016.
Milan
Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Milan.
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Edited by Andrea Gamberini.
Brill, 2015.
Naples
Medieval Naples.
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By Alexander Harper.
Oxford Bibliographies - Medieval Studies
Oxford UP, 2017.
Paris
Oxford bibliographies. Medieval studies. Paris
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By Sarah-Grace Heller.
Oxford UP, 2016.
The Birth of the Metropolis: Urban Spaces and Social Life in Medieval Paris.
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By Jörg Oberste.
Brill, 2021.
Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris: Theologians and the University, c.1100-1330.
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By Ian P. Wei.
Cambridge UP, 2012.
The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris
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By Sharon Farmer.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Public Opinion and Political Contest in Late Medieval Paris: The Parisian Bourgeois and His Community, 1400-50.
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By Luke Giraudet.
Brepols, 2023.
Pisa
Companion to Medieval Pisa.
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Edited by Karen Rose Mathews, Silvia Orvietani Busch, Stefano Bruni.
Brill, 2022.
Prague
History of Prague Towns until the Early 15th Century.
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By Mateusz Golinski.
Brill, 2024.
Rome
The Making of Medieval Rome: A New Profile of the City, 400-1420.
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By Hendrik Dey.
Cambridge UP, 2021.
City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages.
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By Maya Maskarinec.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome: Revising the Narrative of Renewal.
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Edited by Gregor Kalas and Ann van Dijk.
Amsterdam UP, 2021.
Medieval Rome: Stability and Crisis of a City, 900-1150.
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By Chris Wickham.
Oxford UP, 2015.
The Virtues of Economy: Governance, Power, and Piety in Late Medieval Rome.
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By James A. Palmer.
Cornell University Press, 2019.
Venice
Popular Politics in an Aristocratic Republic: Political Conflict and Social Contestation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Venice.
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Edited by Maartje van Gelder and Claire Judde de Larivière.
Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2020.
Music and the Making of Medieval Venice.
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By Jamie L. Reuland.
Cambridge UP, 2024.
Vienna
Companion to Medieval Vienna.
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Edited by Susana Zapke and Elisabeth Gruber.
Brill, 2021.
“Unless You Believe, You Shall Not Understand”: Logic, University, and Society in Late Medieval Vienna.
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By Michael H. Shank.
Princeton UP, 1988.
Ypres
The Fabric of the City: A Social History of Cloth Manufacture in Medieval Ypres.
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By Peter Stabel.
Brepols, 2022.
The Medieval Town in England 1200-1540: A Reader in English Urban History, 1200-1540.
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Edited by Richard Holt and Gervase Rosser.
Routledge, 2014.
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