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According to Raymond Williams (1983, p. 55) in English, the word ‘city’, indicating a large population, and distinguishing the urban from the country, belongs to the sixteenth century. This essay considers primarily that London, though backtracking to medieval London, and to one of its first writers, Chaucer (c.1340–1400) who grew up and worked in it (Pearsall 1992, pp. 17–23).
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Tambling, J. (2016). Medieval and Early Modern Cities: London, Paris, Florence and Amsterdam. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_7
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