Early Modern Streets

Author : Danielle van den Heuvel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000815771

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Early Modern Streets by Danielle van den Heuvel Pdf

For the first time, Early Modern Streets unites the diverse strands of scholarship on urban streets between circa 1450 and 1800 and tackles key questions on how early modern urban society was shaped and how this changed over time. Much of the lives of urban dwellers in early modern Europe were played out in city streets and squares. By exploring urban spaces in relation to themes such as politics, economies, religion, and crime, this edited collection shows that streets were not only places where people came together to work, shop, and eat, but also to fight, celebrate, show their devotion, and express their grievances. The volume brings together scholars from different backgrounds and applies new approaches and methodologies to the historical study of urban experience. In doing so, Early Modern Streets provides a comprehensive overview of one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship in early modern history. Accompanied by over 50 illustrations, Early Modern Streets is the perfect resource for all students and scholars interested in urban life in early modern Europe.

Author : Riitta Laitinen,Thomas Thomas Vance Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004172517

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Cultural History of Early Modern European Streets by Riitta Laitinen,Thomas Thomas Vance Cohen Pdf

In urban life, streets are elemental, but urban history seldom places them centre stage. It tends to view them as mere backdrops for events or social relations, or to study them as material constructions, the fruit of urban planning, but largely vacant of inhabitants. Examining people and streets in tandem, the contributors to this volume strive towards more integrated urban history. They discuss the social and political processes of early modern street life, and the discursive play in which streets figured. Six chapters, based in Sweden-Finland, England, Portugal, Italy, and Transylvania, discuss the subtle interplay of the material and immaterial, public and private, planned order and versatility, spontaneous invention, control and resistance a " all matters central to how streets worked. Contributors are Emese BAlint, Maria Helena Barreiros, Elizabeth S. Cohen, Thomas V. Cohen, Alexander Cowan, Anu Korhonen, Riitta Laitinen, and Dag LindstrAm.

Author : Riitta Laitinen,Thomas Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047425984

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Cultural History of Early Modern European Streets by Riitta Laitinen,Thomas Cohen Pdf

Six essays explore the evolving cultural and material life of the early modern European street, a contested place of shaded meanings where public met private space, and state and society vied for control of urban form.

Author : Thomas V. Cohen,Riitta Laitinen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:888884792

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Cultural History of Early Modern Streets by Thomas V. Cohen,Riitta Laitinen Pdf

Author : Donatella Calabi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351885942

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The Market and the City by Donatella Calabi Pdf

The early modern period is often characterised as a time that witnessed the rise of a new and powerful merchant class across Europe. From Italy and Spain in the south, to the Low Countries and England in the north, men of business and trade came to play an increasingly pivotal role in the culture, politics and economies of western Europe. This book takes a comparative approach to the effect such merchants and traders had on the urban history of market places - streets, squares and civic buildings - in some of the great commercial European cities between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. It looks at how this in period, the transformations of designated commercial areas were important enough to modify relationships throughout the entire urban context. Market places tend to be very ancient, continuing to function for centuries on the same location; but between the middle of the fourteenth and the first decades of the seventeenth, their structures began to change as new regulations and patterns of manufacture, distribution and consumption began to install a new uniformity and geometry on the market place. During the period covered by this study, most major European cities undertook the rebuilding of entire zones, constructing new buildings, demolishing existing structures and embellishing others. This book analyses the intentions of innovation, in parallel with sanitary and hygienic reasons, the juridical regulations of the architecture of certain building types and the urban strategies as efficient tools to better control the economic activities within the city.

Author : S. Clark
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230000629

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Women and Crime in the Street Literature of Early Modern England by S. Clark Pdf

Clark explores how real-life women's crimes were handled in the news media of an age before the invention of the newspaper, in ballads, pamphlets, and plays. It discusses those features of contemporary society which particularly influenced early modern crime reporting, such as attitudes to news, the law and women's rights, and ideas about the responsibility of the community for keeping order. It considers the problems of writing about transgressive women for audiences whose ideal woman was chaste, silent, and obedient.

Author : Donatella Calabi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351885959

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The Market and the City by Donatella Calabi Pdf

The early modern period is often characterised as a time that witnessed the rise of a new and powerful merchant class across Europe. From Italy and Spain in the south, to the Low Countries and England in the north, men of business and trade came to play an increasingly pivotal role in the culture, politics and economies of western Europe. This book takes a comparative approach to the effect such merchants and traders had on the urban history of market places - streets, squares and civic buildings - in some of the great commercial European cities between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. It looks at how this in period, the transformations of designated commercial areas were important enough to modify relationships throughout the entire urban context. Market places tend to be very ancient, continuing to function for centuries on the same location; but between the middle of the fourteenth and the first decades of the seventeenth, their structures began to change as new regulations and patterns of manufacture, distribution and consumption began to install a new uniformity and geometry on the market place. During the period covered by this study, most major European cities undertook the rebuilding of entire zones, constructing new buildings, demolishing existing structures and embellishing others. This book analyses the intentions of innovation, in parallel with sanitary and hygienic reasons, the juridical regulations of the architecture of certain building types and the urban strategies as efficient tools to better control the economic activities within the city.

Author : Christopher R. Friedrichs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317901846

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The Early Modern City 1450-1750 by Christopher R. Friedrichs Pdf

A pioneering text which covers the urban society of early modern Europe as a whole. Challenges the usual emphasis on regional diversity by stressing the extent to which cities across Europe shared a common urban civilization whose major features remained remarkably constant throughout the period. After outlining the physical, political, religious, economic and demographic parameters of urban life, the author vividly depicts the everyday routines of city life and shows how pitifully vulnerable city-dwellers were to disasters, epidemics, warfare and internal strife.

Author : Catherine Richardson,Tara Hamling,David Gaimster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317042846

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The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe by Catherine Richardson,Tara Hamling,David Gaimster Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established field of multi-disciplinary research. The volume provides a rounded, accessible collection of work on the nature and significance of materiality in early modern Europe – a term that embraces a vast range of objects as well as addressing a wide variety of human interactions with their physical environments. This stimulating view of materiality is distinctive in asking questions about the whole material world as a context for lived experience, and the book considers material interactions at all social levels. There are 27 chapters by leading experts as well as 13 feature object studies to highlight specific items that have survived from this period (defined broadly as c.1500–c.1800). These contributions explore the things people acquired, owned, treasured, displayed and discarded, the spaces in which people used and thought about things, the social relationships which cluster around goods – between producers, vendors and consumers of various kinds – and the way knowledge travels around those circuits of connection. The content also engages with wider issues such as the relationship between public and private life, the changing connections between the sacred and the profane, or the effects of gender and social status upon lived experience. Constructed as an accessible, wide-ranging guide to research practice, the book describes and represents the methods which have been developed within various disciplines for analysing pre-modern material culture. It comprises four sections which open up the approaches of various disciplines to non-specialists: ‘Definitions, disciplines, new directions’, ‘Contexts and categories’, ‘Object studies’ and ‘Material culture in action’. This volume addresses the need for sustained, coherent comment on the state, breadth and potential of this lively new field, including the work of historians, art historians, museum curators, archaeologists, social scientists and literary scholars. It consolidates and communicates recent developments and considers how we might take forward a multi-disciplinary research agenda for the study of material culture in periods before the mass production of goods.

Author : Fabrizio Nevola,David Rosenthal,Nicholas Terpstra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000554953

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Hidden Cities by Fabrizio Nevola,David Rosenthal,Nicholas Terpstra Pdf

This groundbreaking collection explores the convergence of the spatial and digital turns through a suite of smartphone apps (Hidden Cities) that present research-led itineraries in early modern cities as public history. The Hidden Cities apps have expanded from an initial case example of Renaissance Florence to a further five historic European cities. This collection considers how the medium structures new methodologies for site-based historical research, while also providing a platform for public history experiences that go beyond typical heritage priorities. It also presents guidelines for user experience design that reconciles the interests of researchers and end users. A central section of the volume presents the underpinning original scholarship that shapes the locative app trails, illustrating how historical research can be translated into public-facing work. The final section examines how history, delivered in the format of geolocated apps, offers new opportunities for collaboration and innovation: from the creation of museums without walls, connecting objects in collections to their original settings, to informing decision-making in city tourism management. Hidden Cities is a valuable resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars across a variety of disciplines including urban history, public history, museum studies, art and architecture, and digital humanities. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Ivan Gaskell,Sarah Anne Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199341764

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The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture by Ivan Gaskell,Sarah Anne Carter Pdf

"The past has left a huge variety of traces in material form. If historians could figure out how to make use of them to create accounts of the past, a far greater range of histories would be available than if historians were to rely on written sources alone. People who do not appear in writings could come into focus; as could the concerns of people that have escaped writing but whose material things belie their desires and actions. This book explores various ways in which aspects of the past of peoples in many times and places otherwise inaccessible can come alive to the material culture historian. It is divided into five thematic sections that address history, material culture, and-respectively-cognition, technology, symbolism, social distinction, and memory. It does so by means of six individually authored case studies in each section that range from pins to pearls, Paleolithic to Punk"--

Author : B. Tlusty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230305519

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The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany by B. Tlusty Pdf

For German townsmen, life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was characterized by a culture of arms, with urban citizenry representing the armed power of the state. This book investigates how men were socialized to the martial ethic from all sides, and how masculine identity was confirmed with blades and guns.

Author : Suzanna Ivanič
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192898982

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Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern Prague by Suzanna Ivanič Pdf

In the seventeenth century Prague was the setting for a complex and shifting spiritual world. By studying the city's material culture, this book presents a bold alternative understanding of early modern religion in central Europe.

Author : Patrick O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521594081

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Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe by Patrick O'Brien Pdf

Comparative urban history examines early modern economic and cultural achievements in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London.

Author : John Tholen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004462397

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Producing Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses' in the Early Modern Low Countries by John Tholen Pdf

This book offers an analysis of paratextual infrastructures in editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and shows how paratexts functioned as important instruments for publishers and commentators to influence readers of this ancient text.