City and society in the Low Countries, 1100-1600 / edited by Bruno Blondé, Marc Boone, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blondé, B. (Bruno), 1964- editor.

Boone, Marc, editor.

Bruaene, Anne-Laure van, editor.

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Belgium--History.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Netherlands--History.

History.

Netherlands.

Belgium.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Endorsements; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 City and Society in the Low Countries: Urbanisation and Urban Historiography; Geographical and Chronological Markers; Thematic Axes; 2 Economic Vitality: Urbanisation, Regional Complementarity and European Interaction; Durability and Change: The Specific Development of Urban Networks in the Low Countries; Regional Dynamics: Town and Country

Crossroads of Northern Europe? Trade and Transport in the Late Middle Ages and the Long Sixteenth CenturyFrom Unfettered Capitalism to Regulated Labour Market? Changes in the Supply Sector...; Conclusions; 3 Living Together in the City: Social Relationships Between Norm and Practice; Introduction; The Ideal of the Commune; Merchants and Landowners: The Powers That Be; The Rise of Corporate Middling Groups; An Urban Nobility?; Guild, Clan and Nuclear Family; The Horsemen of the Apocalypse Gallop from Crisis to Crisis; Economic Conversion and the Triumph of the Urban Middling Groups

A 'Golden Age' for the Wage-Labourer ... or for the Urban Middling Groups?Slipping Through the Net? Poverty and Discipline; 4 'The Common Good': Governance, Discipline and Political Culture; The Question of Discipline: Paradigms and Propositions; Textualisation and Urban Identity; Norms and Rules: The City as a Regulatory Body; Discipline in Practice: Conflict Management and Criminalisation; The Struggle for Power in the City; Sword, Flag and Pen: Resistance in the City; Political Morality as a Weapon and an Ideology; Conclusion

5 Civic Religion: Community, Identity and Religious TransformationCivic Religion?; Urbanisation and Ecclesiastical Structures; The 'Monasticisation' of the City; Lay Piety in Town; Collective Religious Repertoires; Religious Transformations; Epilogue; 6 Urban Space: Infrastructure, Technology and Power; More Than Just Bricks and Mortar: A History of Infrastructure and Facilities; The Construction of an Urban Site; The Development of Centres' Roles; Demarcating Boundaries; Caritas as the Key Component of Civic Unity; Conclusion; 7 At Home in the City: The Dynamics of Material Culture

Residential Styles and CulturesAt Home in the City; Innovations in Products and Processes; Design; Social Boundaries; Savoir Vivre; Material Culture and the City; 8 Education and Knowledge: Theory and Practice in an Urban Context; Reading, Writing and Arithmetic; Teaching and Discipline; Vocational Education: Learning on the Shop Floor and the Role of Craft Guilds; Handbooks and 'Artes-Literature'; The 'Latin' School: A Link Between Elementary and Higher Education; Higher Education; Interactions between Court, University and Town; Conclusion

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 5, 2018)

ISBN:

9781108674645

110867464X

Publisher Number:

40028609599

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