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Food, drink and public order in the London Liber Albus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2006

HELEN CARREL
HELEN CARREL
Affiliation:
Clare College, Cambridge, CB2 1TL
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Abstract

This article provides a detailed study of the Liber Albus, a London custumal compiled in 1419 by John Carpenter, Common Clerk of the City, under the direction of the mayor, Richard Whittington. It explores how the manuscript demonstrated a growing conservatism in early fifteenth-century London government, especially in relation to the regulation of the food trade and matters of public order, linking this to memories of late fourteenth-century turbulence in the City and poor relations with the Crown.

Type
Research Article
Information
Urban History , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , August 2006 , pp. 176 - 194
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This article is based on work carried out for my MA dissertation at the University of York and I am grateful to my supervisors there, Sarah Rees Jones and Nick Havely, for their advice. I am also indebted to Rosemary Horrox of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and the two anonymous readers of Urban History for their comments on earlier drafts of this article.