Making a Medieval Town, Patterns of Early Medieval Urbanization

Warsaw: Institute of Archaeology, Polish Academy of Science, Institute of Archaeology, 2010. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 16,5x23,5 cm. ISBN: 978-83-89499-72-1 Description: softcover, 318 pages (16,5x23,5 cm), drawings, plans, photographs Condition: new Weight: 505g. The origins of early urban European centers have been the subject of continuous debate for a long time. This discussion results partly from the complexity of research questions, but also because the appearance of early towns is very complex to analyze and mostly depends on regional traditions. For this reason no one model can adequately describe early European urbanization. The papers presented in this volume do not pretend to resolve problems of roots of early towns, but the combination of papers highlights different approaches and aspects of the story. They represent an important contribution to the debate and are intended as the basis for further discussion and analysis. Roots of early European urbanization: an introduction Andrzej Buko From a stronghold to a town - the Polish case Przemyslaw Urbanczyk Towns in early medieval Italy: new archaeological perspectives Sauro Gelichi Urban archaeology in Poland - a new approach Andrzej Golembnik The origins of the City in al-Andalus: the case of Madinat Ilbira Antonio Malpica Cuello The evolution of towns in the duchy of Normandy in the 11th-15th centuries: An essay in historical geography using material and quantitative data Bernard Gauthiez Carlisle: the making of a medieval town on the Anglo-Scottish frontier Mike McCarthy Early urbanization in Norway Fetter B. Molaug Viking age emporia around the Baltic Sea - a cul-de-sac of the European urbanization? Mateusz Bogucki Kalisz as an example of development of a medieval centre in Poland Tadeusz Baranowski Cracow in archaeological research Kazimierz Radwanski, Anna Tyniec Current problems of the research of high medieval towns in East-Central Europe Jerzy Piekalski The problems of the beginning of medieval towns in the northern Caucasus Irina Arzhantseva, Svetlana Ruzanova