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INTRODUCTION
IMPORTANT FACTORS AFFECTING THE HISTORY OF YORK
(a) Geographical position; (b) Military value of its position;(c) Political importance
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)
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
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
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
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