Towns in Decline, AD100–1600

Terry Slater

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.