Tait, James. The Medieval English Borough. Studies on its origins and Constitutional history

” Long regarded as the definitive study of early history of the English medieval borough, this book presents a thorough review of the ‘thorny question of origins’….Tait begins by considering the rise of towns in the Anglo-Saxon period before the Danish wars, and follows the process of fortification in response to the Danish threat, assessing its significance in the origins of boroughs.”