Transcriber’s note:

The original has a number of inconsistent spellings and punctuation.Three corrections have been made for obvious typographical errors;they have been noted individually in the text.

 


 

LIFE IN
A MEDIÆVAL CITY

ILLUSTRATED BY

YORK IN THE XVth CENTURY

BY

EDWIN BENSON, B.A.

WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON:
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
1920


CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER II

IMPORTANT FACTORS AFFECTING THE HISTORY OF YORK

(a) Geographical position; (b) Military value of its position;(c) Political importance

CHAPTER III

APPEARANCE

A. General appearance

Church, State, people; outside the city; population; area-divisions

B. Streets

Highways, traffic, open-spaces; Ouse Bridge

C. Buildings

Dwelling-houses, shops, inns; civic buildings (guildhalls);fortifications (castle, city walls, bars); religious buildings(Minster; St. William's College; St. Mary's Abbey; Friaries; St.Clement's Nunnery; Hospitals; Parish Churches)

D. York as a Port

CHAPTER IV

LIFE

A. Civic Life

City government, the parishes; extra municipal rights; a royal city;charter; sheriffs; mayor; city councils; civic spirit; city and traderule; royal government; punishments; sanctuary

B. Parliamentary and National Life

Leasing of royal power; Parliament; visits of Henry IV.; Wars ofRoses; Duke of Gloucester; judges of assize; royal larder

C. Business Life

Middle class of merchant employers; Jews and Italians; professions;wool trade; trade-guilds; their government; strangers; phases of guildlife; merchants; apprentices; working hours; trades; artist craftsmen;markets and fairs; overseas trade; money; extracts from ordinances

D. Religious Life

The Church in the Middle Ages; the Church and daily life; merchantsand religion; the Church and education; work of hospitals; priests (atMinster; parish churches; Archbishop); pluralism; religious orders;monastic life; St. Mary's Abbey; Anchorites; other types of religious(pardoner, palmer, pilgrim); Church services

E. Education

Higher education; grammar schools; elementary education; educationalwelfare work; instruction; the ways in which the citizen got news andinformation; vocations; literacy in fifteenth century; mediævallearning; Revival of Learning

F. ...

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