Medieval Southwark / Martha Carlin.

Author
Carlin, Martha [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1996.
Description
xxiii, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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    Southwark, situated directly opposite the City of London at the southern end of London Bridge, was London's first suburb. In most modern accounts of medieval London, Southwark figures merely as a minor but colourful adjunct of the City: the home of Chaucer's Tabard Inn, of the notorious Bankside brothels, of the Marshalsea and King's Bench prisons, and later of the theatres, including Shakespeare's Globe. To the Londoners of its own day, however, medieval Southwark was not a quaint bohemian district but an unruly enclave of undesirable industries and residents, a commercial rival, an administrative anachronism, and a perpetual jurisdictional affront. Martha Carlin examines the urban development of Southwark from its Roman origins to the mid sixteenth century. She traces in detail Southwark's transformation from a semi-rural straggle of dwellings into a densely-inhabited community displaying such characteristically urban features as a diversified economy, a stratified and heterogeneous society, an excess of rubbish, and a traffic problem. Concentrating on the period from 1200 to 1550, for which documentary evidence is most abundant, Medieval Southwark reconstructs Southwark's evolution over the centuries, analysing the borough's topographical development, its manorial administration and religious institutions, its demographic patterns and economic structure, its stormy relationship with London, and its long process of urbanisation. This book is an important contribution to the study of medieval urban history.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-327) and index.
    Contents
    • Roman and Saxon Southwark. Roman London and Southwark ; Post-Roman period ; Seventh and Eighth centuries ; Ninth century ; Tenth and Eleventh centuries
    • Topographical development. Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries ; High Street ; Newington Causeway, Kent Street and St. George's Field ; Tooley Street and Horselydown ; Bermondsey Street and Long Lane ; Manor of Paris Garden ; Bishop of Winchester's Manor ; Fourteenth century ; Fifteenth century ; Tidemills of Southwark ; Sixteenth century
    • Religious institutions. Priory ; Hospital ; Parish churches ; St Olave's ; St Margaret's ; St George's ; St Mary Magdalen's (from 1540 St Saviour's) ; St Thomas's ; Epilogue: The Reformation in Southwark
    • Administration. Crown ; County officers ; Royal prisons ; Crown and the guildable manor ; Manors ; Manor officers ; Manor courts ; Manorial autonomy: the sanctuary of Paris Garden ; Southwark and Parliament ; Southwark and London
    • Population. Population estimates, 1066-1300 ; Southwark poll tax return of 1381 ; Population of Southwark, 1400-1550 ; Immigration
    • Aliens in Southwark. 'Doche' ; Alien community ; Xenophobia in London ; Legal and commercial strife ; Southwark success story: the career of Henry Leeke
    • Occupations and economy. Poll tax return of 1381 ; Occupations of women in 1381 ; Social and economic topography of Southwark in 1381 ; Occupational and economic structure, 1381-1550
    • Inns and alehouses, hucksters and victuallers. Inns ; Markets and Huckster ; Victuallers, tippiers and brewers
    • Stews and prostitution. Bankside stews ; Regulation of the Bankside stews ; Prostitution elsewhere in Southwark before 1500 ; Prostitutes ; Sixteenth century
    • Urbanization. Embankments and ditches ; Clean air and water ; Paving, bridges, stairs and gutters ; Public sanitation ; Commercial and industrial waster ; Livestock and other animals ; Refuse disposal and street-cleaning ; Fire prevention ; Otter hazards and nuisances ; Street-lighting ; Traffic control ; Policing ; Signposts of urbanization
    • Conclusion. Comparisons with other suburbs and towns ; Southwark and London ; Southwark and Westminster: defining a town ; Southwark: an epilogue.
    ISBN
    • 1852851163 ((acid-free paper))
    • 9781852851163 ((acid-free paper))
    LCCN
    95047679
    OCLC
    33665917
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