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‘Irishtowns’ and ‘Welsh Streets’: Ethnic Enclaves Within the Towns of Colonial Ireland and Wales in a Northern-European Colonial Context

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Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe: The Social and Political Order of Peripheral Urban Communities from the Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries, Pages: 46 - 72

Swansea University Author: Matthew Stevens Orcid Logo

DOI (Published version): 10.5871/bacad/9780197267301.003.0003

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This chapter identifies the common pattern of integration and discrimination that affected native persons attempting to move into the new medieval colonial towns established in Wales, by Norman and English conquerors and the crown, and in Prussia, by the State of the Teutonic Knights and bishops. Bo...

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Published in: Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe: The Social and Political Order of Peripheral Urban Communities from the Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries
ISBN: 9780197267301 9780191976711
Published: Oxford British Academy 2022
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