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Urban History Writing in Northwest Europe (15th-16th centuries)
, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, 231 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:20 b/w, 6 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503583761.
Summary This volume aims at taking the first steps towards a revaluation of urban historiography in Northwest Europe, including rather than excluding texts that do not fit common definitions. It confronts examples from the Low Countries to well-studied cases abroad, in order to develop new approaches to urban historiography in general. In the authors' view, there are no fixed textual formats, social or political categories, or material forms that exclusively define 'the urban chronicle'. Urban historiography in pre-modern Western Europe came in many guises, from the dry and modest historical notes in a guild register, to the elaborate heraldic images in a luxury manuscript made on commission for a patrician family, to the legally founded political narrative of a professional scribe in an official town chronicle. The contributions in this volume attest to the diversity of the 'genre' and look more closely at these texts from a broader, comparative perspective, unrestrained by typologies and genre definitions. It is mainly because of these hybrid guises, that many examples of urban historiography from the Low Countries for instance succeeded in going unnoticed for a considerable amount of time. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Jan Dumolyn and Anne-Laure Van Bruaene [Both University of Ghent] - Urban Historiography in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Chapter 1: Questioning genre and typologies Marco Tomaszewski [University of Freiburg] - Constructing Urban Historiography. The Edition Basler Chroniken and the Beinheim Manuscript Ina Serif [University of Freiburg] - Urban chronicles - urban consciousness? On the chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen in new codicological contexts Jenine de Vries [University of Durham] - It's not just about chronicles. The variety of forms of historical writing in late medieval towns in England and the Southern Low Countries. Paul Trio [KU Leuven] - Ypres as a historiographical breeding ground in late medieval Flanders. Origin and interconnectedness of urban and regional historiography Chapter 2: The memory of conflict: the social and political context of urban historiography Laura Crombie [University of York] - Records and rumours from Tournai; Jehan Nicolay's account of a town at war and the construction of memory Tineke Van Gassen [University of Ghent] - The Diary of Ghent: between urban politics and late medieval historiography Bram Caers and Lisa Demets [University of Antwerp/University of Utrecht; and University of Ghent] - Opposing reports on loyalty and rebellion. Urban history writing in late medieval Bruges and Mechelen Chapter 3: Materiality and mixed media Marcus Meer [University of Durham] - Heraldry, Historiography and Urban Identity in Late Medieval Augsburg. The Cronographia Augustensium and the Gossembrot Armorial Peter Bakker [VU Amsterdam] - The origin and purpose of the town chronicles of the city Kampen Louise Vermeersch [KU Leuven] - Printed Almanacs: a Popular Medium for Urban Historiography and Religious Dissent?
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-González Part I - Urban Networks and Central Place Rouen : pôle urbain et centre de consommation Anne Kucab Le réseau erfurtois à la fin du Moyen Âge. 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 García 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) María Ángeles Martín Romera Part III - Dynamics of Government. Cooperation, Rivalry and Conflict between Cities The Town of Kolín and its Communication Horizons in the Late Middle Ages Jan Vojtí?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) Óscar López Gómez The Interaction between the Bohemian Royal Towns and their Relation to the Cities of Central Europe in 1526-1620 Jana Vojtí?ková
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, François 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 Tomé 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
Matter of Honour. The Leading Urban Elite in Sixteenth Century Transylvania
, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, 284 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:22 b/w, 5 col., 7 tables b/w., Languages: English, Latin. ISBN 9782503555768.
Summary This monograph entails a comparative study of two early modern urban centers in Transylvania: Cluj (Kolozsvár, Klausenburg) and Sibiu (Nagyszeben, Hermannstadt). It develops a new perspective on urban history in Transylvania, by filling the recent historiographical lacuna on early modern urban elites. This book attempts to combine traditional and modern research methods, by analyzing and comparing a large volume of unpublished data along three research lines. First, the historical background within which of the town elites in Cluj and Sibiu monopolized power are analyzed, including the development of town autonomy and governmental systems, the legal background of urban leadership, its continuity and the conditions under which the political urban elite acted in each town. Secondly, a thorough archontological and prosopographical research, with a special focus on marriage strategies and professional competence leads to a socio-political characterization of the elites of Cluj and Sibiu. Finally, an attempt is made to provide insight into the representation and self-fashioning of these elites. TABLE OF CONTENTS The manuscript has three main chapters, an introductory chapter, conclusions, bibliography and index of names. The introductory chapter starts with the definitions of terms used in the text along with a short review of the elite theories with references to Max Weber, Norbert Elias, Gaetano Mosca or Vilfredo Pareto. This part is followed by the presentation of the aims and of the methodology pursued during the research. The presentation of the sources was split into two categories: unpublished primary sources and edited documents. Subsequently, the historiographical traditions on the topic - both in Hungary/Romania and international - are discussed. The first main chapter is titled 'Respublica - res publica' and it is structured on three subchapters and thirteen sub-sub chapters. The first section (1.1.) is dedicated to the legal and institutional framework within which the urban elites of Cluj and Sibiu operated. The main objective of this section is to acquaint the readers with the beginnings of urban government and autonomy in the two towns in order to discuss the whole process of elite formation from the medieval period until the early modern. I have tried here to cutback some erroneously interpreted historical facts that has been reproduced time and again in scholarly works without any constructive criticism. A second section explores the structures of the town governments in the sixteenth century (1.2.), the history of the main urban offices and their legal context. A third section ends this chapter by having a closer look on the forces that might have interfered with the process of elite formation or disturbed it. Following Karen Lambrecht's theory, elite formation is studied in relation to the court, the Church, the Reformation movements, university and multi-ethnicity. This part gives a deeper insight on the political, religious and ethnic realities of the region in the sixteenth century. The second main chapter ('Magistri rei publicae') focuses on the archontological and propographical research on the urban elites. First, the legal, moral and material criteria of eligibility in public offices are discussed. Presenting several case studies, the second part makes a statistical and analytical presentation of the career building and power concentration in a comparative way. The following two subchapters investigate the 'cursus honorum' (the advancement of public office-holders within the ranks of the town council) and the networking strategies of the local elites (2.4.). This section leads to some intriguing aspects of power concentration within the local elites, family-networks and business relations are revealed. This main chapter concludes in an analytical subchapter dealing with the question whether the governing elites in Cluj and Sibiu can be categorized as a patrician communities or not (2.5). The third part of this book ('Shaping self- and communal identity') is dedicated to the self-fashioning, and by that, to the communal individuation through the representation of the elites. Two main aspects are discussed here: the rituals and the ceremonies of the council election, constituted by a strong interaction between town and elites, and the erudite self-representation of the leaders through art and architecture. The book is provided with a concluding chapter, a vast bibliography and an index of names.
Kasper H. Andersen, Jeppe Büchert Netterstrøm, 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 Büchert Netterstrøm, Lisbeth M. Imer, Bjørn 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 Søvsø Civic Literacy in Late-Medieval Ribe Jeppe Büchert Netterstrøm Markers of Civic Literacy in Medieval Danish Towns Kasper H. Andersen Putting Town Life in Writing: Medieval Danish Town Scribes Bjørn 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 Gøgsig Jakobsen Lost Notes and Hidden Spells: Scraps of Worldly Literacy from the Choir Stalls in Lund Cathedral Andreas Manhag
