Everyday political business in early modern cities took place under many different sources of tension. De facto establishment of the oligarchy in the government

Examines how urban citizenship gave many people a real stake in their own communities, even before the rise of modern democracy.

The discipline of social history has still not given enough attention to the ways in which the perceptions and roles of "ordinary" people changed over time. In

Tracing Hospital Boundaries explores how the forces of integration and segregation shaped hospital communities and structures in theory and practice between the

An essential introductory survey of the towns, villages and parishes in which people lived in the medieval and early modern periods. Beat Kumin assesses the sim