Offering a new interpretation of the pre-modern urban past, Cities, Texts and Social Networks highlights contemporary experiences of the city and their mediation through written, visual and environmental evidence. Comprising twelve essays that model important new ways of re-imagining the urban world, it points to significant patterns of socialisation in medieval urban milieus, particularly with respect to the role of sanctity, the evolution of charitable landscapes and the coalescence of formal institutions and informal networks of human interaction.

Caroline Goodson is a lecturer in History and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Anne E. Lester is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Carol Symes is Associate Professor of History and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

List of Illustrations, List of Contributors, Preface, 1 Introduction, Part I: Constructing and Restructuring, PArt 2: Topographies as Texts, Part 3: Citizens and Saints, Part 4: Agency and Authority, Bibliography, Index