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The environment in which people lives shapes the way they behave, so the questions this chapter seeks to address relate to how distinctive the social and cultural environment was in the medieval town. Did towns give rise to new social forms and new ideas? Were they as civilising as Archbishop Pecham considered them to be?
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Swanson, H. (1999). Urban Society. In: Medieval British Towns. Social History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27578-6_5
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