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Record Nr.

UNINA9910477183703321

Titolo

Sandwich - the 'completest medieval town in england' : a study of the town and port from its origins to 1600 / / edited by Helen Clarke , documentary research, Sheila Sweetinburgh, Bridgett Jones, illustrations, Allan T. Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; Oakville, Canada : , : Oxbow Books, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-84217-731-1

1-299-48522-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Disciplina

942.23

Soggetti

Middle Ages

Historic buildings - England - Sandwich

Sandwich (England) Antiquities

Sandwich (England) Buildings, structures, etc

Sandwich (England) Social conditions

Sandwich (England) History 16th century

Sandwich (England) History To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Origins -- pt. 3. 1200-1360 -- pt. 4. 1360-1560 -- pt. 5. 1560-1600 -- pt. 6. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

To the casual visitor of today, Sandwich appears as simply a small inland market town on the bank of a modest river. But locals and historians have long known that in the Middle Ages it was a strategic and commercial seaport of great significance, trading with northern Europe and the Mediterranean and growing prosperous on this business. The medieval fabric of the town has been preserved to a remarkable extent, but historians and archaeologists have never agreed on quite where the first settlement was located. Nor has there been close study of what the surviving medieval buildings can tell us