xiv, 430 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

1. The Medieval City at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century -- 2. Cities in Crisis: the Economic and Demographic Realignments of Urban Europe in the Later Middle Ages. The International Emporia. The Demographic Disasters of the Later Middle Ages. Urban Decline in the Fifteenth Century -- 3. The City...

City Finances: Northern Europe. City Finances: the South -- 6. The Elites of the Later Medieval Cities. The Replenishment of Patrician Fortunes: Strategies of Perpetuation -- 7. Occupational Guilds, the Middle and Lower Orders, and Poverty in the Later Medieval City. Guild Organisation and Politics...