Medieval Norwich

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Throughout the middle ages, Norwich was one of the most populous and celebrated cities in England. Dominated by its castle and cathedral priory, it was the centre of government power in East Anglia, as well as an important trading entrepot. With records dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, and many buildings surviving from the middle ages, the history of medieval Norwich is an exceptionally rich one. Medieval Norwich is an account of the growth of the city, with its walls, streams, markets, hospitals and churches, and the lives of its citizens. It traces activities and beliefs, as well as the tensions lying not far beneath the surface that eventually erupted in Kett's Rebellion of 1549.

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Carole Rawcliffe is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and author of Medicine and Society in later Medieval England. Richard Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of East Anglia and the author (with Alan Mackley) of Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House 1660 - 1880.

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Carole Rawcliffe is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and is author of Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England and Leprosy in Medieval England.