, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, 274 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 4 tables b/w., 31 maps b/w, Languages: English, French. ISBN 9782503583310.
Summary The purpose of this volume is to question traditional notions of city space in pre-modern Europe (with its stress on space being incorporated, regulated and integrated, dominated by its merchants and crafts), and to investigate how far it was in fact economically and politically pluralistic with a great variety of functions and juridictions. The volume examines comparatively the range of different urban spaces in and outside the medieval and early modern city from gardens, farmland and wasteland to industrial sites, poor and rich suburbs, shooting grounds, green space, grey space and military zones. Case studies cover cities in France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, England, Portugal and the Middle East. We ask: how far was the pre-modern city a compact city? Or was it in fact a 'subaltern city', as geographers have recently proposed, where many urban spaces were contested and the municipality has to be seen as only one key spatial actor? TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Peter Clark, Denis Menjot Preface Introduction 2. La ville en puzzle. Centralit et subalternit des espaces urbains Bruxelles au Moyen ge Paulo Charruadas & Bram Vannieuwenhuyze 3. Une ville perm able ? L'espace de transition urbain-rural autour d'une ville aux XIIIe et XIVe si cles Catherine Xandry 4. Penser les p riph ries : l'apport du concept d'urbain pour Paris au XIVe si cle Boris Bove 5. Les liens d'interd pendance entre une cit et ses faubourgs (Amiens, XIIIe-XVIe si cles) Mathieu Beghin, post-doc, France 6. Locating marginality in the city: the extramural neighbourhoods of fifteenth-century London Charlotte Berry 7. Les fondouks chr tiens dans les villes musulmanes du bassin m diterran en au Moyen ge. Espaces p riph riques ou nouvelles polarit s urbaines ? Dominique Val rian 8. Habiter une paroisse suburbaine. La population de Saint-Jean de Latran de Rome (1630-1680) Eleonora Canepari 9. Quartiers, faubourgs et anciens faubourgs : l'espace subalterne Lyon (XVIe-XVIIIe) Olivier Zeller 10. L'embellissement de Marseille en 1666, entre soumission et r sistance des faubourgs Julien Puget 11. La police des espaces non aedificandi de la fortification p riurbaine Lille et Bruxelles au XVIIIe si cle : des espaces abandonn s ou int gr s la ville? Catherine Denys 12. The multiple uses of green space : Haarlem and the Haarlemmerhout in the eighteenth century Carolien Boender