Caroline M. Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of
medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London's role
as medieval England's political, cultural, and commercial capital,
together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and
religious cultures that shaped the lives of its inhabitants. This
collection of eighteen papers focuses on four themes: crown and city;
parish, church, and religious culture; the people of medieval London;
and the city's intellectual and cultural world. They represent essential
reading on the history of one of the world's greatest cities by its
foremost scholar.