CURRENT TRENDS IN THE STUDY OF MEDIEVAL URBANISM (BASED ON MATERIALS OF THE CONFERENCE IN HELSINKI)
The article presents an overview of the Conference {{Reinterpreting Cities» organized by European Association on Urban History in Helsinki last summer. The attention is mostly paid to the sessions concerning the history of European medieval towns. One of them, «Monastery in Medieval Urban Setting», was organized by the authors of this review. The participants of the conference extensively discussed new methods of social history of towns.