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A clear charter-by-charter review of how medieval borough status turned town life into legal power.
Medieval urbanization is framed through charters, the documents that recorded town life while also setting many of its rules. Henry I's Exchequer gives the episode a firm administrative backdrop, with taxes and city government sitting alongside a useful distinction between a…
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