CITIES AND TOWN The medieval city.pdf

ILLUSTRATIONS
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1. Danebury, an Iron Age (c. 800 to 400 b.c.e.) hillfort in
southern England 3
2. Totnes (Devon) and its abortive or unsuccessful satellites 13
3. The expansion of Florence 26
4. The expansion of Paris 27
5. Cologne 28
6. Krakow in the late Middle Ages 32
7. Arras, a binary town 33
8. Prague in the late Middle Ages 37
9. A row of townhouses, based on the surviving evidence of
Tackley’s Inn, Oxford 42
10. Arnhem, a late medieval walled town, relatively lightly
built up within its walled perimeter 44
11. A domestic cesspit, excavated within a house in Basing
Lane in the City of London 48
12. At both Volterra and San Gimignano in central Italy the
number of hearths (or households) increased until c. 1340 57