Description and condition: Maroon boards hardback, dustcover, 4to, 460pp, index, notes, maps, b/w illustrations. Very good, owners details on FFEP, else with nice bright clean pages. In similar dustcover with slight edgewear. Contents: What were towns and how did they develop; what part did towns play in the province; towns as provincial capitals: London; the coloniae: Colchester, Lincoln, Gloucester and York; the first civitas capitals: Canterbury, Verulamium and Chelmsford; from client kingdom to civitas: Caistor-by-Norwich, Chichester, Silchester and Winchester; flavian expansion: Cirencester, Dorchester, Exeter, Leicester and Wroxeter; Hadrianic stimulation: Caerwent, Carmarthen, Brought-on-Humber and Aldborough; some exceptions and late developments: Carlisle, Ilchester and Water Newton; town-life or life in towns? |
