ABSTRACT
In a published selective bibliography of books and articles about London in the years 1300-1550, there were 104 items but only 39 of these, or 37 per cent, had been published before 1975. This somewhat haphazard statistic provides a fair indication of the recent flurry of interest in the history of London in the later middle ages. The London Record Society in publishing some of the less ‘official’ records of medieval London has been one of the ‘triggers’ which has helped to stimulate and to shape the character of historical work on London in the last twenty years. There are aspects of the history of London which have received a great deal of attention. One of these is the size and composition of the population of the city. The revived interest in civic ceremonial and in drama is closely linked with a surge of interest in popular piety and the practice of religion among Londoners in the late medieval period.
