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Finn-Einar Eliassen and Geir Atle Ersland, eds.
Power, Profit and Urban Land: Landownership in Medieval and Early Modern Northern European Towns.
Published Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996.
Size: Historical Urban Studies.
ISBN 1859283411.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printer: Ipswich Book Co.
Size: 160x240x27mm.
Page count: xiv,277pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition very good: this copy is unused, but with some shop wear; in particular, the underside of the pages is yellowed after storage in bright sunlight.

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[Publisher’s price £65.00]
Weight without packaging: 562g.

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Contents:
Scrase, Working with British property records — potential & problems;
Hammel-Kiesow, Property patterns, buildings & social structure of urban society — Ghent, Lübeck & Novgorod;
Ersland, Evolution of land rent in late medieval Bergen;
Slater, Medieval town-founding on estates of Benedictine order in England;
Keene, Landlord, property market & urban development in medieval England;
Rodger, Feuing, 'farming' & Scottish urban form, c 1600-1900;
Szende, Urban landownership in western Hungary;
Bogucka, Limited urban landownership — towns & nobility in early modern Poland, c 1500-1650;
Sandberg, Urban landownership in early modern Sweden;
Eliassen, Profit, power & private planning — landowners & small towns in early modern Norway;
Graham, Processes of urban improvement in provincial Ireland;
Hood, Power & profit in an Irish estate town [Strokestown].

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: 16
Illustrations: 23 monochrome text figures
Maps & plans: 29
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: at end of each chapter
Index: yes

See also | Towns & urban development |
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