Negotiating the political in Northern European urban society, c.1400-c.1600 / edited by Sheila Sweetinburgh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sweetinburgh, Sheila, author, editor.

Contributor:

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, issuing body.

Series:

Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 434.

Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v. 38.

Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series)

Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; volume 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban--Europe, Northern--History--15th century.

Sociology, Urban.

Sociology, Urban--Europe, Northern--History--16th century.

City and town life--Europe, Northern--History--15th century.

City and town life.

Power (Social sciences).

History.

Northern Europe.

City and town life--Europe, Northern--History--16th century.

Power (Social sciences)--Europe, Northern--History--15th century.

Power (Social sciences)--Europe, Northern--History--16th century.

Physical Description:

viii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tempe, Arizona : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013.

Summary:

This is a fascinating and wide-ranging collection of case studies on the creation of identity in late medieval and Renaissance urban society. At a time of far-reaching political, religious, and social changes, towns were at the forefront of this transformation of European society, their citizens frequently engaged in the struggle for autonomy. When negotiating relationship with the Church, the Crown, and within the town's own competing constituencies, townsmen were able to manipulate factors such as time and space in their pursuit of honour, status, commemoration, reputation, and power. The resulting town studies are arranged thematically-the view from the inside; the view from the outside-being set within contemporary cultural developments. Thus the collection highlights the differing strategies and approaches employed by towns, seeing such variation as indicative of the importance of the particular within the study of European urban society. The introductory discussion explores overarching themes and cross-cultural similarities, and professor Caroline Barron provides a masterly concluding essay. This volume is an exciting development that sheds fresh light on the history of northern European urban communities. Book jacket.

Contents:

'Specyall lover and preferrer of the polytike and common weale' : John Smyth and ideal citizenship in fifteenth-century Bury St Edmunds / Mark Merry

Rebuilding the city centre / Karsten Igel

Discord in the public arena : processes and meanings of the St Bartholomew's Day festivities in early sixteenth-century Sandwich / Sheila Sweetinburgh

The skin of the unjust judge : 'negotiating the political' in early modern Canterbury / Paula Simpson

'With the consent of the towne, and other skillfull marryners and gentlemen' : an examination of textual negotiations in the Elizabethan restoration of Dover harbour 1582-1605 / Clair Bartram and Mary Dixon

Crown and town in later medieval England : Bristol and national politics, 1399 to 1486 / Peter Fleming

Brokers in the cities : the connections between princely officers and town officials in Holland at the end of the Middle Ages (1480-1558) / Serge Ter Braake

Town, faith, and power in unquiet times : Prague between the Hussite pre-reformation and the Habsburgs' rule (1436-1526) / Christian-Frederik Felskau

Afterword : negotiating the political: the view from London / Carloline M. Barron.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780866984829

0866984828

OCLC:

820678664