Cities and Solidarities: Urban Communities in Pre-Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367874254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 276 str.

Justin Colson; Arie Van Steensel

Opis

Cities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places revitalises our understanding of urban communities as dynamic interconnections of solidarities in pre-modern Europe. Combining theoretical frameworks with digital methodologies, this volume sheds new light on the socio-economic conditions, the form

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Contents

List of figures and tables

Preface

List of contributors

1. Cities and Solidarities. Urban Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe







Justin Colson and Arie van Steensel












2. Making the citizen, building the citizenry. Family and citizenship in fifteenth-century Barcelona







Carolina Obradors-Suazo












3. Gladman’s procession and communal identity in Norwich, 1425-1452







Derek M. Crosby












4. Mapping urban communities. A comparative topography of neighbourhoods in Bologna and Strasbourg in the late Middle Ages







Colin Arnaud












5. Conflict, community, and the law. Guarantors and social networks in dispute resolution in early modern Saxony







John Jordan












6. The poor of medieval Zagreb between solidarity, marginalisation and integration







Suzana Miljan and Bruno Škreblin












7. Poor boxes, guild ethic and urban community building in Brabant, c. 1250-1600







Hadewijch Masure












8. Who’s who in late medieval Brussels?







Bram Vannieuwenhuyze












9. A cursus for craftsmen? Career-cycles of the Worsted Weavers of late-medieval Norwich







Dana Durkee












10. Wage labour, wealth, and the power of a database. Unlocking communities of work outside urban guilds in Newcastle upon Tyne







Andy Burn












11. Urban communities and their burghers in the Kingdom of Hungary (1750-1850). The possibilities databases offer for historical analysis







Árpád Tóth, Gábor Czoch and István Németh












12. Speech and sociability. The regulation of language in the livery companies of early modern L

O autorze

Justin Colson is Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Essex.

Arie van Steensel is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Groningen.