English small towns and the emergence of capitalist relations, c. 1450–1550
Dimmock, S.
Urban History 28(1): 5-24
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0963-9268 Document Number: 369056
This paper seeks to extend the knowledge of small-town structures and of conflict in late medieval urban society by utilizing the unusual survival of a variety of sources for the English small town of Lydd in Kent. The main focus is an analysis of conflicts over capitalizing enclosure in Lydd in the mid-fifteenth century from which it then seeks to generalize, and to implicate towns in the feudalism to capitalism debate previously overwhelmingly confined to rural society.