Medieval urban culture / edited by Andrew Brown and Jan Dumolyn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Andrew, 1964- editor.

Dumolyn, Jan, editor.

Series:

Studies in European urban history (1100-1800) ; 43.

Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800) ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns, Medieval--Europe.

Cities and towns, Medieval.

Europe.

Physical Description:

vi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2017]

Summary:

"This volume explores the specificity of the urban culture in western Europe during the period c. 1150-1550. Since the mid-twentieth century, many studies have complicated the association, traditionally made, between the medieval growth of towns and the birth of a modern, secular world; but few have given any attention to what actually made urban culture 'urban'. This volume begins by placing medieval 'urban culture' within its spatial context, to consider how urban conditions determined the perception and representation of the city-dweller. Contributors examine a variety of urban cultures, from the political to the artistic, from London and Bruges to Florence and Venice, and beyond Europe. They show how urban culture involved a process of interaction with other discourses (royal, noble, ecclesiastical) and that it was not monolithic: the relationship between urban environments and the cultures they generated were hybrid, fluid and dynamic."--Back cover.

Contents:

Medieval urban culture: conceptual and historiographical problems / Andrew brown & Jan Dumolyn

The urban culture of the ordinary people: space and identity in Renaissance Venice (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries) / Claire Judde de Larivière

Memory, text and space in late medieval London / Mark Amsler

Making a city and citizens: the 'fruits' of preaching in Renaissance Florence / Peter Howard

Nuisance neighbours and persistent polluters: the urban code of behaviour in late medieval London / Barbara Rouse

Prosecuting treason in Lancastrian London: the language and landscape of political dissent / E. Amanda McVitty

Chronicles and crowds: accounts of urban unrest in Norman cities, 1090-1160 / Lindsay Diggelmann

'Cursed ymagynacion': late medieval London, urban chronicles and the topologies of treason / Roger Nicholson

Connecting the urban environment with political ideas in late Capetian France / Chris Jones

Christian-Jewish exchanges withing the urban culture of twelfth-century France and England / Constant J. Mews

Discovering new media: Anthonis de Roovere and the early printing press / Johan Oosterman

Port cities and river harbours: a peculiar motif in Antwerp landscape painting, c. 1490-1530 / Katrien Lichtert

Europe looks east: Chinese cities in medieval travel writing, c. 1298-c. 1440 / Kim M. Phillips.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9782503577425

2503577423

OCLC:

1016606154