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Author : Adriaan Verhulst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521469090
A concise study of large time frame (fourth-twelfth centuries) charting the growth and development of cities in north-west Europe.
Author : Adriaan Verhulst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 1107112427
For more than fifty years no synthesis has been written which systematically examines the growth and development of cities in north-west Europe. Adriaan Verhulst takes as his subject the history of urban settlements and towns in the region between the rivers Somme and Meuse from the late Roman period (fourth century) to the end of the twelfth century. This region comprises Flanders and Liège, two of the most urbanized areas, not only in the southern Netherlands but in northwestern Europe as a whole until the twelfth century. Fifteen towns are studied in all, and, supported by numerous maps, Professor Verhulst provides rich details of the impact of political, military, ecclesiastical, as well as social and economic, factors on the developing towns as they were transformed from regional markets to centres of industry and international commerce.
Author : Bram Vannieuwenhuyze,Reinout Rutte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06
Category : History
ISBN : 2503600565
Adriaan Verhulst's The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe (1999) is the last comprehensive work written by a single author on the urban genesis and spatial developments of cities in the medieval Low Countries. Since then, monographs, specialised studies and articles have been published on various cities and towns, while urban archaeologists have carried out numerous excavations. Much new knowledge has been gained, yet many gaps and the need for comparative overviews remain. Twenty-five years after Verhulst's synthesis, The Rise of Cities Revisited takes a fresh look at the origins and developments of cities and towns in the Low Countries between the tenth and the sixteenth centuries, critically assesses progress made in scholarship and outlines future directions for research. The nine chapters of the book are written by senior and junior specialists from various fields, including medieval history, historical geography, economic history, archaeology and building history. The Rise of Cities Revisited presents a state of the art and provides scholars with tools to study this complex subject in future.
Author : Peter Hall,Dennis Hay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Richard Lawton
Publisher : Belhaven
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015014952553
Author : Tiffany A. Ziegler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030020569
Medieval Healthcare and the Rise of Charitable Institutions: The History of the Municipal Hospital examines the development of medieval institutions of care, beginning with a survey of the earliest known hospitals in ancient times to the classical period, to the early Middle Ages, and finally to the explosion of hospitals in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. For Western Christian medieval societies, institutional charity was a necessity set forth by the religion’s dictums—care for the needy and sick was a tenant of the faith, leading to a unique partnership between Christianity and institutional care that would expand into the fledging hospitals of the early Modern period. In this study, the hospital of Saint John in Brussels serves as an example of the developments. The institution followed the pattern of the establishment of medieval charitable institutions in the high Middle Ages, but diverged to become an archetype for later Christian hospitals.
Author : Arnaldo Bagnasco,Patrick Le Galès
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521664888
European cities are at the centre of social, political and economic changes in Western Europe. This book proposes a new research agenda in urban sociology and politics applying primarily to European cities, in particular those that together make up the urban structure of Europe: a fabric of older cities of over 100,000 inhabitants, regional capitals and smaller state capitals. The contributors develop an analytical framework which views cities as local societies, and as collective factors and site for modes of governance. The three parts of the book examine the economics of cities, the social structures, and the modes and processes of governance. Each chapter comprises a comparison across several countries and examines critically the book's central theoretical perspective. This is not a book about the making of a Europe of cities but rather about how some cities can take advantage of their changing global and European environment.
Author : Christopher Loveluck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107470828
Christopher Loveluck's study explores the transformation of Northwest Europe (primarily Britain, France and Belgium) from the era of the first post-Roman 'European Union' under the Carolingian Frankish kings to the so-called 'feudal' age, between c.AD 600 and 1150. During these centuries radical changes occurred in the organisation of the rural world. Towns and complex communities of artisans and merchant-traders emerged and networks of contact between northern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle and Far East were redefined, with long-lasting consequences into the present day. Loveluck provides the most comprehensive comparative analysis of the rural and urban archaeological remains in this area for twenty-five years. Supported by evidence from architecture, relics, manuscript illuminations and texts, this book explains how the power and intentions of elites were confronted by the aspirations and actions of the diverse rural peasantry, artisans and merchants, producing both intended and unforeseen social changes.
Author : David Burtenshaw,Michael Bateman,Gregory John Ashworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015028868175
Explores the distinction of West European urban experience. It also provides an examination of the similarities and differences between urban experiences of West European countries. Divided into three sections, the first part studies the philosophies, histories and procedures that make the West European city system rich in internal variety. The second part deals with various aspects of the city's developmental policies and the final section consolidates the previous policies by examining the city plan as a whole.
Author : Victoria N Bateman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317321736
This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern period.
Author : Eltjo Buringh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004175198
Drawing on statistical techniques and samples this book offers an estimate of medieval production rates of manuscripts in the Latin West. Such information is a helpful production indicator for a period of which we have so little other quantitative data.
Author : Sofia Greaves,Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789257816
According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman.
Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141972091
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020 A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce. This book traces the history of human movement and interaction around and across the world's greatest bodies of water, charting our relationship with the oceans from the time of the first voyagers. David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern China and Japan, bringing together the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific and linking half the world through the international spice trade. In the Atlantic, centuries before the little kingdom of Portugal carved out its powerful, seaborne empire, many peoples sought new lands across the sea - the Bretons, the Frisians and, most notably, the Vikings, now known to be the first Europeans to reach North America. As Portuguese supremacy dwindled in the late sixteenth century, the Spanish, the Dutch and then the British each successively ruled the waves. Following merchants, explorers, pirates, cartographers and travellers in their quests for spices, gold, ivory, slaves, lands for settlement and knowledge of what lay beyond, Abulafia has created an extraordinary narrative of humanity and the oceans. From the earliest forays of peoples in hand-hewn canoes through uncharted waters to the routes now taken daily by supertankers in their thousands, The Boundless Sea shows how maritime networks came to form a continuum of interaction and interconnection across the globe: 90 per cent of global trade is still conducted by sea. This is history of the grandest scale and scope, and from a bracingly different perspective - not, as in most global histories, from the land, but from the boundless seas.
Author : Angeliki E. Laiou,Cécile Morrisson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139465755
This is a concise survey of the economy of the Byzantine Empire from the fourth century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Organised chronologically, the book addresses key themes such as demography, agriculture, manufacturing and the urban economy, trade, monetary developments, and the role of the state and ideology. It provides a comprehensive overview of the economy with an emphasis on the economic actions of the state and the productive role of the city and non-economic actors, such as landlords, artisans and money-changers. The final chapter compares the Byzantine economy with the economies of western Europe and concludes that the Byzantine economy was one of the most successful examples of a mixed economy in the pre-industrial world. This is the only concise general history of the Byzantine economy and will be essential reading for students of economic history, Byzantine history and medieval history more generally.
Author : Robert Muchembled,William Monter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521845472
This volume surveys the crucial role of cities in shaping cultural exchange in early modern Europe.
