Innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern European cities / edited by Karel Davids and Bert De Munck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davids, C. A., 1952-

Munck, Bert de, 1967-

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic conditions.

Guilds.

History.

Technological innovations.

Urbanization.

City and town life.

Intellectual life.

Italy--Intellectual life.

Italy.

Benelux countries--Intellectual life.

Benelux countries.

City and town life--Europe, Western--Case studies.

Urbanization--Europe, Western--Case studies.

Technological innovations--Italy--History.

Technological innovations--Benelux countries--History.

Guilds--Italy--History.

Guilds--Benelux countries--History.

Italy--Economic conditions.

Benelux countries--Economic conditions.

Economic history.

Western Europe.

Genre:

Case studies.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 420 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, 2014.

Summary:

"Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century northwestern Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Why did cities rather than rural environments produce new artistic genres, new products and new techniques? How did pre-industrial cities evolve into centres of innovation and creativity? As the most urbanized regions of continental Europe in this period, Italy and the Low Countries provide a rich source of case studies, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate. They set out to examine the relationship between institutional arrangements and regulatory mechanisms such as citizenship and guild rules and innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern cities. They analyze whether, in what context and why regulation or deregulation influenced innovation and creativity, and what the impact was of long-term changes in the political and economic sphere"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern European cities : introduction / Karel Davids and Bert De Munck

The cities of glass : privileges and innovations in early modern Europe / Corine Maitte

Craft guild legislation and woollen production : the Florentine arte della lana in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Francesco Ammannati

New products and technological innovation in the silk industry of Vicenza in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Edoardo Demo

To kill two birds with one stone : keeping immigrants in by granting free burghership in early modern Antwerp / Jan de Meester

The secret perfume : technology and the organization of soap production in northern Italy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries / Alberto Grandi

Textiles manufacturing, product innovations and transfers of technology in Padua and Venice between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries / Andrea Caracausi

The spatial side of innovation : the local organization of cultural production in the Dutch Republic, 1580-1800 / Claartje Rasterhoff

Beyond exclusivism : entrance fees for guilds in the early modern Low Countries, 1450-1800 / Karel Davids and Bert de Munck

The coopers' guilds in Holland, c. 1650-1720 : a market logic? / Janneke Tump

The early modern Antwerp Coopers' Guild : from a contract-enforcing organization to an empty box? / Raoul de Kerf

The paradox of the Antwerp Rose : symbol of decline or token of craftsmanship? / Annelies de Bie

Harbouring urban creativity : the Antwerp Art Academy and the tension between artistic and artisanal training in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Dries Lyna

Innovation in the capital city : central policies, markets and migrant skills in Neapolitan ceramic manufacturing in the eighteenth century / Alida Clemente

Innovations, growth and mobility in the secondary sector of Trieste in the eighteenth century / Daniele Andreozzi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-400) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

1472439872

9781472439871

OCLC:

880349825

Publisher Number:

99961966984