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Cities of strangers : making lives in Medieval Europe

Author: Miri Rubin
Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. ©2020
Series: Wiles lectures.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 and 1500. Some city-states enjoyed considerable autonomy which allowed them to legislate on how newcomers might settle and become citizens in support of a common good. Such communities invited bankers, merchants, physicians, notaries and judges to settle and  Read more...
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Genre/Form: History
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Rubin, Miri, 1956-
Cities of strangers
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
(DLC) 2019038909
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Miri Rubin
ISBN: 9781108481236 110848123X 9781108740531 1108740537
OCLC Number: 1120965697
Description: xv, 189 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Contents: Cities and their stranger --
Strangers into neighbours --
Jews : familiar strangers --
Women : sometimes strangers in their cities.
Series Title: Wiles lectures.
Responsibility: Miri Rubin.

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Examining how 'strangers' - settling newcomers as well as settled ethnic and religious minorities - were treated in urban communities between 1000 and 1500, Cities of Strangers explores pathways to  Read more...

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'In Cities of Strangers, Miri Rubin takes us deep into the practices of inclusion and exclusion in medieval cities across Europe. Introducing us to the variety of newcomers who sustained urban life, Read more...

 
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