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Learn about the origins, development, and features of medieval towns in Europe. Find out how medieval towns were surrounded by walls, had guilds, markets, churches, and names derived from various sources.
Learn how medieval towns looked and how they were governed in the Middle Ages. Find out how the walls, gates, streets, houses, guilds and customs shaped the urban life and the development of European law.
Learn about the history and characteristics of urban life in medieval Europe, from the post-Roman period to the Black Death. Explore the archaeological evidence for urban form, function, trade, and culture in the Middle Ages.
A paper that uses plan analysis to study the spatial development of Coventry, a medieval provincial centre in England. It discusses the origins, growth and decline of Coventry and its urban form, and the potential of plan analysis for mapping the evolution of European towns and cities.
Jerzy Piekalski (“Current problems of the research of the high medieval towns in East-Central Europe”) discusses some important aspects of European urbanization, starting from the proto-town concepts, related to the question what towns are.
For each of the thirteen towns covered by the atlas there are three ‘core’ maps. Each is a detailed town plan showing particular features that make up its urban layout. The first core map contains proven and substantiated urban features, while the second adds in those features that are less certain and more conjectured.
5 mar 2015 · Learn about the features and challenges of medieval towns in England, such as their location, size, water supply, taxes, charters, and diseases. See examples of medieval towns and their layouts, and how they differed from villages and cities.
