Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Vol. 2 of 2
But there is another side of the town history which is not less important, and which is far more complicated than the question of its foreign relations and policy - that is, the problem of its own nature, of the spirit by which it was animated and the inherent resources of its corporate life. In the town a new world had grown up with an organization and a polity of its own wholly different from that of the country. Members who joined its community were compelled to renounce all other allegiance and forego any protection from other patrons. The chief magistrate set over its inhabitants must be one of their own fellow-citizens not a far dweller unless in time of special need, such as war, and then only by the pleasure of the commonalty. 1 Adventurers from the manor-houses of the neighbourhood and strangers in search of fortune were equally shut out.
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