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18 septembre 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.psorbonne.32878
- isbn: 9782859446642
- eisbn: 9791035101695
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Christian D. Liddy, « Political contract in late medieval english towns », Publications de la Sorbonne, ID : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.32878
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Historians regard the growth, consolidation and entrenchment of urban oligarchy as the defining feature of the political history of towns in late medieval England. The issue of oligarchy has dominated historical inquiry to such an extent that, although there has been debate about the appropriateness of the term and differences of opinion about the relative importance of its ideological and material foundations, there is agreement about the ultimate triumph of a form of government in which pow...