Urban Societies In East Central Europe 1500 1700

Author : Jaroslav Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317003403

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Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700 by Jaroslav Miller Pdf

Whilst much has been written about early modern urban history, the majority of this work has focussed on Western Europe with relatively little available in English on towns and cities in the former communist East. However, in recent years urban scholars have increasingly looked to a much more inclusive picture of Europe that compares and contrasts development across the whole continent. Dealing primarily with Bohemia, Hungary and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this book provides an insight into a number of key issues concerning the economic, social and demographic trends in early modern East-Central European urban history. Taking a supra-national perspective, across a long time span, it examines the effects of migration, Reformation, state building and economic change on the transformation of medieval urban communities into early modern societies. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, particularly the registers of new citizens kept by many towns and cities, a fascinating picture of urban development and social structure is reconstructed that not only tells us much about East-Central Europe, but adds to our knowledge of the whole continent.

Author : Jaroslav Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 1315548690

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Urban Societies in East Central Europe, 1500-1700 by Jaroslav Miller Pdf

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110223897

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Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Although the city as a central entity did not simply disappear with the Fall of the Roman Empire, the development of urban space at least since the twelfth century played a major role in the history of medieval and early modern mentality within a social-economic and religious framework. Whereas some poets projected urban space as a new utopia, others simply reflected the new significance of the urban environment as a stage where their characters operate very successfully. As today, the premodern city was the locus where different social groups and classes got together, sometimes peacefully, sometimes in hostile terms. The historical development of the relationship between Christians and Jews, for instance, was deeply determined by the living conditions within a city. By the late Middle Ages, nobility and bourgeoisie began to intermingle within the urban space, which set the stage for dramatic and far-reaching changes in the social and economic make-up of society. Legal-historical aspects also find as much consideration as practical questions concerning water supply and sewer systems. Moreover, the early modern city within the Ottoman and Middle Eastern world likewise finds consideration. Finally, as some contributors observe, the urban space provided considerable opportunities for women to carve out a niche for themselves in economic terms.

Author : Maria Bogucka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Baltic Coast
ISBN : UOM:39015055815180

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Baltic Commerce and Urban Society, 1500-1700 by Maria Bogucka Pdf

The great merchant port of Danzig, now Gdansk, is at the centre of this set of studies by Professor Maria Bogucka. Through it passed the greatest part of the trade that linked the West with Poland and the Baltic; from it the commercial culture of the West spread out into the towns of Poland, and with it new currents in religion and urban life, and from there it began to permeate the whole of Polish society. The studies in this volume examine both the social and economic sides of this process, looking at articles of commerce and trends in urbanization, as well as patterns of poor relief and gender relations. The author's aim is to analyse specific aspects of what happened in Poland, while situating these in the broader context of the development of early modern European society.

Author : Justin Colson,Arie van Steensel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351983617

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Cities and Solidarities by Justin Colson,Arie van Steensel Pdf

Cities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places can revitalise our understanding of urban communities as dynamic interconnections of solidarities in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume sheds new light on the socio-economic conditions, the formal and informal institutions, and the strategies of individual town dwellers that explain the similarities and differences in the organisation and functioning of urban communities in pre-modern Europe. It considers how communities within cities and towns are constructed and reconstructed, how interactions amongst members of differing groups created social and economic institutions, and how urban communities reflected a sense of social cohesion. In answering these questions, the contributions combine theoretical frameworks with new digital methodologies in order to provoke further discussion into the fundamental nature of urban society in this key period of change. The essays in this collection demonstrate the complexities of urban societies in pre-modern Europe, and will make fascinating reading for students and scholars of medieval and early modern urban history.

Author : Christopher R. Friedrichs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Henry Kamen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0044456441

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European Society 1500-1700 by Henry Kamen Pdf

Author : Alexander Cowan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0340719818

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Urban Europe, 1500-1700 by Alexander Cowan Pdf

Examining the nature and diversity of urban life during the 16th and 17th centuries-- a period of considerable economic, political and social change-- this text stresses the extent to which towns remained distinct from their rural hinterlands.

Author : Peter Clark,Paul Slack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415417600

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Crisis and Order in English Towns, 1500-1700 by Peter Clark,Paul Slack Pdf

This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at teh end of the Middle Ages to the influence of war on London Merchant class at the end of the seventeenth century. This book was first published in 1972.

Author : B. Kümin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230598461

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Drinking Matters by B. Kümin Pdf

Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously renegotiated, they catered for basic human needs as well as infinite forms of social exchange.

Author : Jan De Vries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Urbanization
ISBN : UCAL:B4915798

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European Urbanization, 1500-1800 by Jan De Vries Pdf

This book is based on an immense systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with 10,000 or more inhabitants analyzed at fifty year intervals. Using a wide range of economic, demographic, and geographical models, de Vries illustrates patterns of urban growth, draws conclusions about the significance of migratory behavior, and shows the effects of urbanization on the history of Europe as a whole.

Author : Jiri Machacek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004182141

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The Rise of Medieval Towns and States in East Central Europe by Jiri Machacek Pdf

This book is a contribution to the understanding the transformations that took place across Europe during the second half of the first millennium. The goal is to draw conclusions on the basis of the archaeological evidence from important centres.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poland
ISBN : UOM:39015062101434

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Acta Poloniae Historica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sheila Sweetinburgh
Publisher : Acmrs (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 2503546668

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Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Society, C.1400-c.1600 by Sheila Sweetinburgh Pdf

Chiefly concerned with England and Holland.

Author : David Nicholas
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022387521

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The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500 by David Nicholas Pdf

That traced the rise of the medieval European city system from late antiquity to the early fourteenth century; this offers a portrait of the fully developed later medieval city in all its richness and complexity.