SANDWICH: THE 'COMPLETEST MEDIEVAL TOWN IN ENGLAND'
Written by Helen Clarke, Sarah Pearson, Mavis Mate, Keith Parfitt
Published by Oxbow Books
in 2010
ISBN: 9781842174005
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH EAST UK
- KENT
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (MEDIEVAL)
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SANDWICH: THE 'COMPLETEST MEDIEVAL TOWN IN ENGLAND'
Written by Helen Clarke, Sarah Pearson, Mavis Mate, Keith Parfitt.
Stock no. 1828108
1st.
2010.
Hardback.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition.
A study of the town and port from its origins to 1600. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour photos, b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781842174005. Light bumping & rubbing to corners. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Contents otherwise fine.
Front cover
Contents
- Part I: INTRODUCTION
- Chapter I: Background to the Sandwich project
- Part II: ORIGINS
- Chapter 2: Environmental background and origins
- Chapter 3: Sandwich in the eleventh century: the establishment of the medieval town
- Chapter 4: Sandwich in the twelfth century: the growth of an urban society
- Part III: 1200-1360
- Introduction
- Chapter 5: The port and town: consolidation and outside influences
- Chapter 6: Religious buildings
- Chapter 7: Secular buildings
- Chapter 8: The topography of the town by the mid-fourteenth century
- Part IV: 1360-1560
- Introduction
- Chapter 9: Trade and the haven
- Chapter 10: The life of the town
- Chapter 11: War, rebellion and defence
- Chapter 12: Secular buildings
- Chapter 13: Churches and hospitals
- Chapter 14: The landscape of the town
- Part V: 1560-1600
- Chapter 15: The town
- Chapter 16: The buildings
- Part VI: CONCLUSIONS
- Chapter 17: Sandwich in the context of wider studies of historic towns: an assessment
- APPENDIX 1: Sandwich archaeological sites, 1929-2007
- APPENDIX 2: Sandwich bouses that appear on the maps
- Notes
- References and abbreviations
- Index