Knowledge and the Early Modern City: A History of Entanglements

ISBN-13: 9781138337718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Bert De Munck; Antonella Romano

Opis

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in a period when the nature and conception of both was drastically transformed.

Spis treści

Knowledge and the Early Modern City: An Introduction  Part 1. Knowledge and the Staging of the City  1 The theatrum as an Urban Site of Knowledge in the Low Countries, c. 1560-1620  2 Artisanal ‘Histories’ in Early Modern Nuremberg  3  Boatmen, Druids and Parisii in Lutetia: Archaeologising Parisian Society in Eighteenth-Century Civic Epistemology  Part 2. Urban Agency, Science, Technology and the Making of the City  4 Stench and the City. Urban Odours and Technological Innovation in Early Modern Leiden and Batavia  5 Cities, Long-Distance Corporations and Open Air Sciences: Antwerp, Amsterdam and Leiden in the Early Modern Period  6 Technology Transfer, Ship Design and Urban Policy in the age of Nicolaes Witsen  Part 3. Imperial Cities, Knowledge for Empires?  7 André de Avelar and the City of Coimbra: Spaces of Knowledge and Belief during the Early Modern Iberian Union  8 Roman Urbans Epistemologies: Global Space and Universal Time in the Rebuilding of a Sixteenth-century City  9 The library, the City, the Empire: De-provincialising Vienna in the Early Seventeenth Century