The early English peoples gathered in at most small conclaves of self sufficient farms, and few of the old Roman towns survived. But slowly opportunity made way for people creating and expanding places where many people could live and work.
See a brief overview at the latest The Medieval Chronicle in my article, "The Development of Anglo Saxon Towns".
"Canterbury, London, Winchester, and, in the north, York were thriving communities, enabling the English economy to expand and thrive, and for the new found problems of sanitation and the spread of disease in densely populated communities to become part of the familiar urban history of the Middle Ages."Also in this issue:
St. Vitus and St. Vitus Dance, in And the Saints Go Marching, Denise Donning- A Day in an Animal's Lilfe, by Neia Leja
- Those Architectural Cistercians, by Anita Gordon
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