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Constructing a Civic Community in Late Medieval LondonThe Common Profit, Charity and Commemoration\nAuthor(s): David Harry\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783273782, 978-1783273782\nSynopsis\nAn examination of the growth of civic power in the turbulent arena of late medieval London.\n\nIn the late fourteenth century, London's government, through mismanagement and negligence, experienced a series of crises. Relationships with the crown were tested; competing factions sought to wrest power from the hands of the once all-powerful victualling guilds; revolt in the streets in 1381 targeted the institutions of royal as well as civic power; and, between 1392 and 1397, King Richard removed the liberties of the city and appointed his own wardensto govern in place of the mayor of London.\nThis book examines the strategies employed by the generation of London aldermen who governed after 1397 to regain control of th.