The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages, selected sources, 2000, 252 p., br. . Paperback. Price GB £16.99 -

More than one hundred documents providing evidence or comment on urban life in Italy are presented here in English translation. Through taking a wide geographical and chronological approach, Trevor Dean aims to provide a much more varied and perhaps more realistic picture of the towns and cities across the whole of Italy during the 13th and 14th centuries. The documents range from chronicles, to statute-laws, from records of trials, taxation, contracts, to poetry and stories and individual letters and diaries. These are inter-linked through five central themes : the physical environment, civic religion, economy, society and politics.