Summary: 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.

Contents: 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. 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. 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. The Child in Medieval London: The Legal Evidence. 14. Johanna Hill (d. 1441) and Johanna Sturdy (d. c. 1460), Bell-Founders. 15. Centres of Conspicuous Consumption: The Aristocratic Townhouse in London, 1200-1500. 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. (Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture)

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