The Creation of a Community: The City of Wells in the Middle Ages

Abstract

Introduction - the appeal of the small town, community and the borough community, sources origins - the early Church, the development of the town the size of a small town - the physical city the smaller town in medieval Europe, the size of the population, population change - dilapidation and decayed rents, population change - the admissions list, migration, relative size economy - occupational structure, clothmaking - participation, organization of the industry, magnitude of the industry, Wells and its countryside, trade, labour, conclusion - qualifying urban decline the balance of authority - the burgesses' power circa 1300, the moment of crisis, the community's resources, the accommodation the social history of the borough community 1377-1500 - membership, socio-economic composition, participation and office-holding, trades and power, oligarchy the culture of the borough community 1377-1520 - the community ideal, order and tradition, the fraternal ideal, unity, virtues and vices, the institutions of community, initiation, conviviality, manifestations of unity, peacemaking, arbitration the social world completed - the foreigners - a neglected social category, economic and political situation, poverty, the scope of poverty, women the culture of the Church - the cathedral, the parish, the parish guilds, chantry and community, prayer, alms - the giving, education, new lives, heterodoxy and control conclusion - the complexity of small things. Appendices: Wells' bishops stewards and masters of Wells borough community.

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