{"product_id":"desolation-of-a-city-coventry-and-the-urban-crisis-of-the-late-middle-ages-9780521525008","title":"Desolation of a City: Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Phythian-Adams | Phythian-Adams Charles | Lyndal Roper\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a contribution to both national and local history. Coventry is taken as a richly documented case-study of the crisis which marked the end of the medieval period for many substantial towns. Its demographic and economic decline is followed from the fifteenth century to a dramatic period of short-term crisis between 1518 and 1525. Attention is then focused on the traditional structure of the community: the life-cycles of the citizens are related to the intricate pattern of social positions within a multi-dimensional survey. The author illustrates how the occupants of this structure were depleted by crisis and decline, through devastating depopulation, the attrition of the male labour-force, and the failure of the population to reproduce itself. The results included an uncontrolled insurrectionary riot, the emergence of a radical programme for reform along very early 'Commonwealth' lines in the 1530s and, ultimately, the erosion of the old communal organisation and its ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614231740567,"sku":"9780521525008","price":6889.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780521525008.webp?v=1775092017","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/desolation-of-a-city-coventry-and-the-urban-crisis-of-the-late-middle-ages-9780521525008","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}