Professor Christian Liddy's Outputs (2)

The household, the citizen, and the city: towards a social history of urban politics in the late Middle Ages (2024)
Journal Article
Liddy, C. D. (2024). The household, the citizen, and the city: towards a social history of urban politics in the late Middle Ages. Social History, 49(3), 261-293. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2024.2351752

Histories of politics in the late medieval European town present a struggle between town oligarchs and town citizens. While the conclusions that historians draw differ, the stakes of politics are the same: exclusion, participation, and representation... Read More about The household, the citizen, and the city: towards a social history of urban politics in the late Middle Ages.

The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe (2024)
Journal Article
Liddy, C. (2024). The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, 264(1), 3-47. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtad030

The relationship between towns and lords was fundamental both to the making of towns and to the making of polities in the late Middle Ages. The European literature on state growth has led historians to focus on the role of towns in historicizing narr... Read More about The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe.