Description: A comprehensive dissection of the making of urban society in the Low Countries during the middle ages and the sixteenth century.
Brief description: Marc Boone teaches medieval history at Universiteit Gent, Belgium. At the moment, his research is oriented primarily toward financial urban history, the social and political history of towns in the late medieval Low Countries and Burgundian history.
Review Quotes: '... this book's impressive synthesis and interpretation of the region's medieval cities makes its publication in English of high value to all students of the premodern period.' Peter Arnade, Renaissance Quarterly