The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600

Lauro Martines, The Times Literary Supplement Tom Scott's The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 brings a major addition to our picture of the subject. He provides a detailed cross-section of developments in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and the Low Countries.

Lauro Martines, The Times Literary Supplement Historians are thus likely to come away from their inquiry with the feeling that they have touched the pulse of history

Dr Shami Ghosh, Reviews in History Scott has given us an excellent, very stimulating starting point, which any future effort to examine economic and political transformation from the Middle Ages to modernity will surely want to take account of.

Gianluca Raccagni, English Historical Review, Volume 128, Number 534 Rivers of ink have flowed in writings about city-states, but Tom Scotts latest work provides a distinguished contribution to that literature

David Nicholas, American Historical Review This welcome addition to the literature is massively documented, well written, and can be used by both scholars and non-specialists.

<br>Before joining the Institute of Reformation Studies in St Andrews in 2004, Tom Scott was based in the School of History at the University of Liverpool. Before that he was a research fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. He has worked on town-country relations and regional identities in late medieval and early modern Germany, bringing his approach to bear upon aspects of the Reformation at the grassroots and on the German Peasants' War.<br>

Introduction; 1. Europe in AD 1000; 2. The Rise of the Communes, 1000-1150; 3. Cities and their Adversaries, 1150-1300; 4. City-States at the Crossroads, 1300-1450: The South; 5. City-States at the Crossroads, 1300-1450: The North; 6. Survival and Transformation, 1450-1600; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index