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Medieval Urban Culture

Medieval Urban Culture

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Series: Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), Book 43

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 2503577423
ISBN13: 9782503577425
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: Dec 6 2017
Pages: 213
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
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.

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