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Urban Hierarchy. The Interaction between Towns and Cities in Europe in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times
, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 228 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Language(s):English, French. ISBN 9782503577272.
Summary Urban hierarchy means a new study approach that focuses on the reciprocal concurrence of relationships between urban centers, their complementarity, opposition, support and ongoing collaboration. The goal is to go beyond the single analysis of a city and focus on the interaction between towns and cities and to distinguish their dynamics and the degree of specialization within a political framework. The final objective is to provide a comprehensive historical analysis as urban history requires, open to the advantages of interdisciplinarity and the contributions of the international researchers that will take part in the book. The processes of urban hierarchisation are not only vital for observing the dynamics of cities, but also for studying in depth the response capabilities of the urban systems in the face of new challenges and stimuli. These aspects of the historical analysis of cities are still quite unexplored and, therefore, they will receive a great deal of attention in the book. The initial regional frameworks will not exclude small towns and rural centers since, even though they may look less potentially relevant, they might display greater specific development. Thanks to a renewed methodology and special attention to the empirical basis, it is possible to improve our knowledge of the urban systems of European regions at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Early Modern Era, shedding light on some aspects of the medieval past that will also influence other scientific areas of humanities. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Urban Hierarchies in Pre-Modern Europe Maria Asenjo-Gonz lez Part I - Urban Networks and Central Place Rouen : p le urbain et centre de consommation Anne Kucab Le r seau erfurtois la fin du Moyen ge. Une construction politique en marge du seigneur Morwenna Coquelin Urban Hierarchies in the Heart of the Po Valley (12th-15th century). Persistence and Change Andrea Gamberini Part II - Capital Cities and Political Actions Rethinking Madrid during the Sixteenth Century. An Approach from Urban Hierarchies David Alonso Garc a About the Urbanization in the Kingdom of Naples. The Campanian Area in 15th-16th Centuries Francesco Senatore Urban Networks 'in Defence of the Realm'. Castilian Cities in Valladolid's Orbit of Influence (1504-1520) Mar a ngeles Mart n Romera Part III - Dynamics of Government. Cooperation, Rivalry and Conflict between Cities The Town of Kol n and its Communication Horizons in the Late Middle Ages Jan Vojt ?ek Urban Hierarchies and the Institutional Fabric of Late Medieval European Towns Arie van Steensel Resistance to Jurisdictional Predominance and Hierarchical Ambitions. Cadahalso versus Escalona (1232-1480) scar L pez G mez The Interaction between the Bohemian Royal Towns and their Relation to the Cities of Central Europe in 1526-1620 Jana Vojt ?kov
Words and Deeds. Shaping Urban Politics from below in Late Medieval Europe
, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 224 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9782503583860.
Summary This book focuses on the city and urban politics, because historically towns have been an interesting laboratory for the creation and development of political ideas and practices, as they are also today. The contributions in this volume shed light on why, how and when citizens participated in the urban political process in late medieval Europe (c. 1300-1500). In other words, this book reconsiders the involvement of urban commoners in political matters by studying their claims and wishes, their methods of expression and their discursive and ideological strategies. It shows that, in order to garner support for and establish the parameters of the most important urban policies, medieval urban governments engaged regularly in dialogue with their citizens. While the degree of citizens' active involvement differed from region to region and even from one town to the next, political participation never remained restricted to voting for representatives at set times. This book therefore demonstrates that the making of politics was not the sole prerogative of the government; it was always, to some extent, a bottom-up process as well. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Shaping urban politics from below. Citizen participation in late medieval Europe Jelle Haemers & Ben Eersels Part I: Institutional bargaining. Councils and institutions of broader participation The Universitas Massilie, an Assembly of the Whole City? Power Struggles and Social Tensions in Marseille During the 14th Century, Fran ois Otchakovsky-Laurens Popular politics and political transformation in Burgos, 1345-1426 Pablo Gonzalez Martin The introduction of large councils in late medieval towns: the example of Stockholm Sofia Gustafsson Part II: Interest groups and interactions. Craft guilds in urban politics Requested and consented by the good crafts. A new approach to the political power of craft guilds in late medieval Maastricht (1380-1428) Ben Eersels Craftsmen, urban councils, and political power in the Swabian cities of the Holy Roman Empire (14th-15th centuries) Dominique Adrian Giving Artisans a Voice: The Political Participation of Guilds in German Towns Sabine Von Heusinger Part III: Discourse, ideology and conflict Injury and Remedy. The language of contention in the southern Low Countries, 13th-16th centuries Jelle Haemers Discourse and collective actions of popular groups in Castilian towns before the 'Revolt of the Comuneros': the case of Valladolid Beatriz Majo Tom Ideologies and political participation of the commons in urban life of Northern Atlantic Spain during the late Middle Ages Jesus Solorzano Telechea The Politics of Record-Keeping in Fifteenth-Century English Towns Eliza Hartrich Conclusion: urban revolts and communal politics in the Middle Ages: problems and perspectives Jan Dumolyn
Kasper H. Andersen, Jeppe B chert Netterstr m, Lisbeth Imer, Bjorn Poulsen, Rikke Steenholt Olesen (eds)
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Urban Literacy in the Nordic Middle Ages
, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, xv + 465 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:46 b/w, 2 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503596747.
Summary This volume explores literacy in the medieval towns of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, and aims to understand the extent to which these medieval urban centres constituted a driving force in the development of literacy in Nordic societies generally. As in other parts of Europe, two languages - Latin and the vernacular - were in use. However, the Nordic area is also characterised by its use of the runic alphabet, and thus two writing systems were also in use. Another characteristic of the North is its comparatively weak urbanization, especially in Finland, Sweden, and Norway. Literacy and the uses of writing in medieval towns of the North is approached from various angles of research, including history, archaeology, philology, and runology. The contributions cover topics related to urban literacy that include both case studies and general surveys of the dissemination of writing, all from a Northern perspective. The thematic chapters all present new sources and approaches that offer a new dimension both to the study of medieval urban literacy and also to Scandinavian studies. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Urban Literacy in the Nordic Middle Ages Kasper H. Andersen, Jeppe B chert Netterstr m, Lisbeth M. Imer, Bj rn Poulsen, Rikke Steenholt Olesen Runic Writing in Danish Medieval Towns Lisbeth M. Imer Medieval Runic Latin in an Urban Perspective Rikke Steenholt Olesen Roman-Script Epigraphy in Norwegian Towns Elise Kleivane "Fann ek bein..., I found a bone?": Runic Artefacts as Material Evidence of Writing in Medieval Norwegian Towns Kristel Zilmer (Il)literacy Reflected on Scandinavian Viking Coins Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson Medieval Literacy in Turku - Material and Linguistic Remains from a Multilingual Townscape Janne Harjula, Visa Immonen and Kirsi Salonen Searching for Urban Literacy in the Archaeological Record Morten S vs Civic Literacy in Late-Medieval Ribe Jeppe B chert Netterstr m Markers of Civic Literacy in Medieval Danish Towns Kasper H. Andersen Putting Town Life in Writing: Medieval Danish Town Scribes Bj rn Poulsen: Variance and Change in Civic Literacy in Late-Medieval Stockholm: The Liber Memorialis Theresia Pettersson The Dominican Order and Urban Literacy in Medieval Scandinavia Johnny Grandjean G gsig Jakobsen Lost Notes and Hidden Spells: Scraps of Worldly Literacy from the Choir Stalls in Lund Cathedral Andreas Manhag
Geographies of Sound. Sounding and Listening to the Urban Space of Early Modern Italy with a Contemporary Perspective
, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, x + 286 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:34 b/w, Language(s):English, Italian. ISBN 9782503606767.
Summary Sound is an essential element of human experience. It is part of the complex semiotic system that enables human communities to orient themselves in time and space, to be informed, to participate in social life as conscious listeners, capable of deciphering and giving meaning to the collective action of the urban space in which they live. Deeper sound horizons reverberate at different levels on the sonic dimension of reality, contributing to a more complex semantic process of the collective civic rituality and the construction of institutional and individual sound identities. In order to investigate the urban soundscape, it is important to define the nature of the sound phenomena to be examined, but also the dynamics concerning their perception as part of complex anthropological processes. These perspectives can be considered from a historical point of view. The studies collected in this volume aim to investigate sound as an element of urban space in early modern Italy. They consider different phenomenologies investigated through innovative methodological perspectives. Particular importance is given to the sound of urban rituality, to its declinations and local connotations, to its ability to interact with public and private dimensions, to the social and aesthetic dynamics that regulate it, and to the definition of the sonic identity of early modern urban space. TABLE OF CONTENTS LUIGI COLLARILE & MARIA ROSA DE LUCA, Introduction VALERIA DE LUCCA, Regulating Sound and Noise in Seventeenth-Century Rome LUIGI COLLARILE, Ephemerides itineris romani : Experiencing the Sound of Italy in two Swiss Travel Diaries of the Seventeenth-Century UMBERTO CECCHINATO, Suoni pericolosi. Musica sacra, emozioni e disciplinamento dello spazio sonoro nelle chiese venete della prima et moderna ANGELA FIORE, Suoni, spazi, identit della Modena estense GIOVANNI FLORIO, Celebrating the Prince from Afar: Echoes of the Jubilant Terraferma in the Orations to the Newly Elected Doges (XVI-XVII Century) NICOLA USULA, Traditional Music in Seventeenth-Century Operas 'alla Veneziana': Intersections in the Italian Soundscape ELIA PIVETTA, Forms of Circulation of Musical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Italy: Giambattista Martini's Risposta to abate Pavona friulano ANGELA FIORE, Urban Spaces and Sound Practices in Neapolitan Female Monasteries Between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries MARIA ROSA DE LUCA, Ritualizing a Resilient City: Soundscape, Collective Performances and Construction of Urban Imaginary GIUSEPPINA LA FACE BIANCONI, La musica come persecuzione. L'inquinamento musicale nelle citt odierne
Rise of Cities Revisited. Reflections on Adriaan Verhulst's Vision of Urban Genesis and Developments in the Medieval Low Countries
, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 275 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:34 b/w, 16 col., 5 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503600567.
Summary 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 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. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction Bram Vannieuwenhuyze 2. Adriaan Verhulst. Urban Historian and his 'The Rise of Cities' Contextualized Marc Boone 3. Markets and Ports. Models for the Origin and Growth of Medieval Towns in Northwest Europe Marcel IJsselstijn 4. Orality, Written Record and Political Contract in the Earliest Borough Charters for Flemish Local Communities (Eleventh to Twelfth Centuries) Els De Paermentier and Jan Dumolyn 5. The Rise of Markets and Centres of Industry. Revisiting Adriaan Verhulst's Views on the Economic Development of Cities and Towns in the Southern Low Countries Bart Lambert and Adam Hall 6. Mapping Three Towns in Four Reference Years. The Dynamics of Late Medieval Urban Development Seen from an Archaeological Perspective Arnold Carmiggelt, Ranjith Jayasena, Ronald van Genabeek & Roos van Oosten 7. Urban Space and Urban Community. Some Remarks on Social Topography and the Sociospatial Structuring of Medieval Towns in the Low Countries Ward Leloup and Mathijs Speecke 8. The Material 'Rise of Cities'. Stone and Brick Houses in the Low Countries before c. 1350: a First Step towards a Building-Archaeological Overview Gabri van Tussenbroek 9. Reflections and Mediations. A View from the Edge Keith D. Lilley 10. Appendix. Bibliography on the Origins, Genesis and Spatial Developments of Individual Cities and Towns in the Medieval Low Countries Reinout Rutte, Bram Vannieuwenhuyze and Marcel IJsselstijn
