The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032062075 / Angielski

Bronach C. Kane; Simon Sandall

Opis

The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe contributes to nascent debates on concepts of neighbourliness and belonging, exploring the operation of the pre-modern neighbourhood in social practice. Formal administrative units, such as the manor and the parish, have been the object of much scholarly attention yet the experience and limits of neighbourhood remain understudied. Building on recent advances in the histories of emotions and material culture, this volume explores a variety of themes on residential proximity, from its social, cultural and religious implications to material and economic perspectives. Contributors also investigate the linguistic categories attached to neighbours and neighbourhood, tracing their meaning and use in a variety of settings to understand the ways that language conditioned the relationships it described. Together they contribute to a more socially and experientially grounded understanding of neighbourly experience in pre-modern Europe.

Spis treści

Introduction: Neighbourhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Revisited  Part I: Neighbours and Neighbourhoods  1. Home and ‘Away’: Neighbours and Strangers in the Urban Communities of Southern Italy at the Start of the Thirteenth Century  2. Neighbourhood and Local Knowledge in Later Medieval England  3. Senses of Neighbourhood (Vicinanza) in Sixteenth-Century Venice  Part II: Conflict and Coexistence  4. Neighbours Across the Religious Divide: Coping with Difference in Henrician Kent  5. Neighbourhood Strife and Enmity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Tuscany: A Platform for New Research  6. ‘They call their neighbours cowards for not assisting them’: Custom, Neighbourliness and Popular Resistance in Early Modern England  7. A Street of Many Parishes: Chester Neighbours, 1670-1730  Part III: Charity and Support  8. Charity and Neighbourly Communities Among the Guilds of Late Medieval Ghent  9. ‘All to make mery with’: Testamentary Bequests to Neighbours in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century York  10. Neighbourliness and Poor Relief in Elizabethan Hadleigh, Suffolk  Part IV: Friendship and Belonging  11. Friends, Family and Neighbours in High-Medieval England: A Hagiographical Perspective  12. Neighbours, Friends and Communal Sentiment in Late Medieval Zagreb  13. Friends, Neighbours and Strained Relationships in Seventeenth-Century Norwich and Norfolk  14. ‘Doing Neighbourhood’: Practising Neighbourliness in the Diocese of Durham, 1624-31

O autorze

Bronach C. Kane is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University. She is co-editor of Women,　Agency and the Law, 1300-1700, and the author of works on gender relations, femininity and masculinity among lower-status people in everyday life.

Simon Sandall is Senior Lecturer at the University of Winchester. He is the author of Custom and Popular Memory in the Forest of Dean, c.1550-1832, and has published numerous chapters and articles on society and culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.