Constructing a Civic Community in Late Medieval London: The Common Profit, Charity and Commemoration. David Harry. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2019. xii + 216 pp. $130.
fiscal-military state, private-public partnerships, Dutch ideas of property and possession, global capitalism, or what? They do not say, suggesting that past events were accidents of history rather than examples of processes. The authors are well read, so readers can certainly use the work as a foundation for their own further investigations by turning to the notes, which include many works in English. But digging is somewhat handicapped by the lack of a bibliography, and the index does not refer to the notes and lists only proper names (i.e., one can find “Benin, Bight of” and “Reformation,” but not “slavery” or “religion”).