Cities and Solidarities: Urban Communities in Pre-Modern EuropeJustin Colson, Arie van Steensel Cities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places can revitalise our understanding of urban communities as dynamic interconnections of solidarities in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume sheds new light on the socio-economic conditions, the formal and informal institutions, and the strategies of individual town dwellers that explain the similarities and differences in the organisation and functioning of urban communities in pre-modern Europe. It considers how communities within cities and towns are constructed and reconstructed, how interactions amongst members of differing groups created social and economic institutions, and how urban communities reflected a sense of social cohesion. In answering these questions, the contributions combine theoretical frameworks with new digital methodologies in order to provoke further discussion into the fundamental nature of urban society in this key period of change. The essays in this collection demonstrate the complexities of urban societies in pre-modern Europe, and will make fascinating reading for students and scholars of medieval and early modern urban history. |
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2 Making the citizen building the citizenry Family and citizenship in fifteenthcentury Barcelona | 25 |
3 Gladmans procession and communal identity in Norwich 14251452 | 43 |
4 Mapping urban communities A comparative topography of neighbourhoods in Bologna and Strasbourg in the late Middle Ages | 60 |
5 Conflict community and the law Guarantors and social networks in dispute resolution in early modern Saxony | 79 |
6 The poor of medieval Zagreb between solidarity marginalisation and integration | 98 |
7 Poor boxes guild ethic and urban community building in Brabant c 12501600 | 115 |
8 Whos who in latemedieval Brussels? | 132 |
9 A cursus for craftsmen? Career cycles of the worsted weavers of latemedieval Norwich | 151 |
10 Wage labour wealth and the power of a database Unlocking communities of work outside urban guilds in Newcastle upon Tyne | 169 |
11 Urban communities and their burghers in the Kingdom of Hungary 17501850 The possibilities databases offer for historical analysis | 188 |
12 Speech and sociability The regulation of language in the livery companies of early modern London | 208 |
13 The physicians marzipan Communities at their intersections in Basel around 1600 | 225 |
14 Scientific instruments and networks of craft and commerce in early modern London | 245 |
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