Resident Aliens in Later Medieval England

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The essays collected in this volume identify and analyse the presence of immigrants in late medieval England. Drawing on unique evidence from the alien subsidies collected in England between 1440 and 1487 and other newly accessible archival resources, and deploying a wide range of historical and cultural methods, they reveal the considerable contribution of foreign-born people to the economy, society and culture of England in the age of the Black Death, the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses. List of abbreviations vii List of illustrations ix Preface xi I. Contexts W. Mark Ormrod and Jonathan Mackman / Resident Aliens in Later Medieval England: Sources, Contexts, and Debates 3 J. L. Bolton / London and the Anti-Alien Legislation of 1439–40 33 II. Immigrant Groups in England Sarah Rees Jones / Scots in the North of England: The First Alien Subsidy, 1440–43 51 Peter Fleming / Icelanders in England in the Fifteenth Century 77 Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli and Jessica Lutkin / Perception, Identity, and Culture: The Italian Communities in Fifteenth-Century London and Southampton Revisited 89 Alan Kissane and Jonathan Mackman / Aliens and the Law in Late Medieval Lincolnshire 105 Christian D. Liddy and Bart Lambert / The Civic Franchise and the Regulation of Aliens in Great Yarmouth, c. 1430 – c. 1490 125 III. The Alien Experience Christopher Linsley / The French in Fifteenth-Century England: Enmity, Ubiquity, and Perception 147 Maryanne Kowaleski / The Assimilation of Foreigners in Late Medieval Exeter: A Prosopographical Analysis 163 Andrea Ruddick / Immigrants and Intermarriage in Late Medieval England 181 Bibliography 201