Table of Contents

Crown and City 1. The Tyranny of Richard II 2. The Quarrel of Richard II with London, 1392-7 3. London and the Crown, 1451-61 4. The Deposition of Richard II 5. Richard II and London Parish, Church and Religious Culture 6. The Parish Fraternities of Medieval London 7. London and St. Paul's Cathedral in the Later Middle Ages 8. The Travelling Saint: Zita of Lucca and England 9. The Will as Autobiography: The Case of Thomas Salter, Priest The People of Medieval London 10. Richard Whittington, the Man behind the Myth 11. Ralph Holland and the London Radicals: 1438-1444 12. The "Golden Age" of Women in Medieval London 13. The Child in Medieval London: The Legal Evidence 14. Johanna Hill (d. 1441) and Johanna Sturdy (d. c. 1460), Bell-Founders The Intellectual & Cultural World of Medieval London 15. Centres of Conspicuous Consumption: The Aristocratic Townhouse in London, 1200-1500 16. The Expansion of Education in Fifteenth-Century London 17. Chivalry, Pageantry, and Merchant Culture in Medieval London 18. The Political Culture of Medieval London

About the Author

Caroline M. Barron is Emeritus Professor of the History of London at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research relates particularly to the late-medieval history of the City of London, the reign of Richard II, and the history of women. Martha Carlin is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she specializes in urban social life, including correspondence, food, and shopping. Joel T. Rosenthal is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Stony Brook University, New York. He is a specialist in medieval prosopography and English social and family history.