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Article: The Making of the Middle Ages: Liverpool Essays.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2009
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The Making of the Middle Ages: Liverpool Essays. Edited by Marios Costambeys, Andrew Hamer, and Martin Heale. (Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 252. $80.00.)
The 2007 octocentenary of the founding of Liverpool was inspiration for a series of lectures by some of Britain's most distinguished medievalists; most of these have been collected in this finely edited and well-illustrated volume. But if King John's letters patent announced the foundation of the borough of Liverpool eight hundred years ago, the population of the city remained very modest until well into the seventeenth century. In view of this fact, the essays in this volume ...
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