Urban Life in Medieval Cities

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Between 1000 and 1500, European towns and cities started to take shape, impacting the lives of millions of people as different cultural, social and religious groups began to interact. But who was allowed to settle in a city and how was it decided who belonged?

In this edition of Gone Medieval, Dr. Cat Jarman talks to Professor Miri Rubin, author of Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe, about migration into urban communities, how newcomers were treated and what happened when strangers became neighbours.

The Senior Producer on this episode was Elena Guthrie.

The Producer was Rob Weinberg.

It was edited and mixed by Seyi Adaobi.

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0:29.8	Hello and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit. I'm Dr Cat German.
0:35.2	Around 80,000 urbanities starts to really take a hold in Europe. Towns and cities had really
0:42.7	developed in the early medieval period but it's over this next 500 year period or so that these
0:48.8	began to really take shape. And this new urbanity had a huge impact on millions of people's lives
0:55.9	and importantly on the interaction between different cultural, social and religious groups.
1:02.3	But who was allowed to settle in a city and how was it decided who belonged and who didn't?
1:09.7	This is precisely the topic of the book, Cities of Strangers Making Lives in Medieval Europe.
1:15.6	The book is written by a medieval and early modern historian Professor Mary Rubin at Queen
1:20.4	Mary University of London who's also the precedent of the Jewish Historical Society of England.
1:26.6	In her book, Mary explores the migration that took place throughout Europe into urban communities
1:31.8	and especially how certain groups of newcomers were treated and what happened when these
1:36.8	strangers became neighbors. So Mary, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today. I'm
1:43.3	really delighted to have you here. Good to be here. So I was really intrigued when I saw the
1:48.9	title of your book, Cities of Strangers and especially that concept of strangers and I want to ask you
1:56.9	about those particular groups that you talk about later on in this conversation but I just
2:02.9	quickly before we start this idea of that particular word, strangers. Do people in the medieval
2:08.8	period talk about strangers? Or is it a modern concept that you've just applied?
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