| Medieval Urban Culture Contributor(s): Brown, Andrew (Editor), Dumolyn, Jan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 2503577423 ISBN-13: 9782503577425 Publisher: Brepols Publishers OUR PRICE: $107.35 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - History | Social History - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
| Series: Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7" W x 9.9" (1.15 lbs) 213 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |