Caroline M. Barron is the world''s leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London''s role as medieval England''s political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and religious cultures that shaped the lives of its inhabitants. This collection of eighteen papers focuses on four themes: crown and city; parish, church, and religious culture; the people of medieval London; and the city''s intellectual and cultural world. They represent essential reading on the history of one of the world''s greatest cities by its foremost scholar.

Caroline M. Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London's role as medieval England's political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and religious cultures that shaped the lives of its inhabitants. This collection of eighteen papers focuses on four themes: crown and city; parish, church, and religious culture; the people of medieval London; and the city's intellectual and cultural world. They represent essential reading on the history of one of the world's greatest cities by its foremost scholar.

Crown and City 1. The Tyranny of Richard II 2. The Quarrel of Richard II with London, 1392-7 3. London and the Crown, 1451-61 4. The Deposition of Richard II 5. Richard II and London Parish, Church and Religious Culture 6. The Parish Fraternities of Medieval London 7. London and St. Paul's Cathedral in the Later Middle Ages 8. The Travelling Saint: Zita of Lucca and England 9. The Will as Autobiography: The Case of Thomas Salter, Priest The People of Medieval London 10. Richard Whittington, the Man behind the Myth 11. Ralph Holland and the London Radicals: 1438-1444 12. The "Golden Age" of Women in Medieval London 13. The Child in Medieval London: The Legal Evidence 14. Johanna Hill (d. 1441) and Johanna Sturdy (d. c. 1460), Bell-Founders The Intellectual & Cultural World of Medieval London 15. Centres of Conspicuous Consumption: The Aristocratic Townhouse in London, 1200-1500 16. The Expansion of Education in Fifteenth-Century London 17. Chivalry, Pageantry, and Merchant Culture in Medieval London 18. The Political Culture of Medieval London