Towns in Decline, AD100–1600

Terry Slater, University of Birmingham, UK T. R. Slater, James P. P. Higgins, Neil Faulkner Neil Christie, S. T. Loseby, Roger White, R. A. Hall, Peter Csendes, Howard B. Clarke, Kenneth Murphy, Grenville Astill, Keith D. Lilley, 'Alan Dyer, Samuel K. Cohn.

Contents: Preface; What is urban decline: desolation, decay and destruction, or an opportunity? T. R. Slater and James P. P. Higgins; Late Roman and Early Medieval Decline: Change and decline in Romano-British towns, Neil Faulkner; Construction and deconstruction: reconstructing the late Roman townscape, Neil Christie; Urban failures in late Antique Gaul, S. T. Loseby; Wroxeter and the transformation of late Roman urbanism, Roger White; The decline of the Wic?, R. A. Hall; Urban development and decline on the central Danube, 100-1600, Peter Csendes; Late Medieval Urban Decline: Decolonisation and the dynamics of urban decline in Ireland, 1300-1550, Howard B. Clarke; The rise and fall of the medieval town in Wales, Kenneth Murphy; Archaeology and the late medieval urban decline, Grenville Astill; Decline or decay? Urban landscapes in late medieval England, Keith D. Lilley; ’Urban decline’ in England, 1377-1525, Alan Dyer; The political economy of urban decline in the Renaissance, Samuel K. Cohn; Index.