Urban History Writing in North-Western Europe (15th-16th Centuries)
Urban History Writing in North-Western Europe (15th-16th Centuries)

Author: Bram Caers

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782503583761

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This volume aims at taking the first steps towards a revaluation of urban historiography in Northwest Europe, including rather than excluding texts that do not fit common definitions. It confronts examples from the Low Countries to well-studied cases abroad, in order to develop new approaches to urban historiography in general. In the authors' view, there are no fixed textual formats, social or political categories, or material forms that exclusively define 'the urban chronicle'. Urban historiography in pre-modern Western Europe came in many guises, from the dry and modest historical notes in a guild register, to the elaborate heraldic images in a luxury manuscript made on commission for a patrician family, to the legally founded political narrative of a professional scribe in an official town chronicle. The contributions in this volume attest to the diversity of the 'genre' and look more closely at these texts from a broader, comparative perspective, unrestrained by typologies and genre definitions. It is mainly because of these hybrid guises, that many examples of urban historiography from the Low Countries for instance succeeded in going unnoticed for a considerable amount of time.

Captured by the City
Captured by the City

Author: Blagovesta Momchedjikova

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2013-12-05

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1443854638

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Captured by the City: Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies is a collection of eighteen essays on urban places, people, and phenomena. In it, cities in North America, Europe, and Asia offer themselves as dynamic encounters to those who study them and to those who live in them on a daily basis. Different disciplines-Sociology, Anthropology, Performance Studies, Architectural History, Linguistics, Media Studies, Documentary Poetics, to name just a few-intersect here to help shape a unique field of inquiry-that of Urban Culture Studies. This multi-perspectival approach grants us a more wholesome understanding of how we inscribe cities and how cities inscribe us in return: as we plan, inhabit, remember them-in reality or in dreams.

The Cambridge Urban History of Britain
The Cambridge Urban History of Britain

Author: Peter Clark

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780521444613

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Surveys the history of British towns from their post-Roman origins down to the sixteenth century.

The Urban Experience
The Urban Experience

Author: F. E. Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-11-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415514378

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This book provides a representative selection of the highest quality papers submitted to the IAPS 13 conference held in Manchester in 1994. The papers are concerned with current research on the experience of living in cities and are drawn from developed, developing and under-developed countries in all parts of the world.

Urban Historical Geography
Urban Historical Geography

Author: Dietrich Denecke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988-06-30

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0521343623

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Originally published in 1988, this book provides a fascinating comparative review of research in urban historical geography in Britain and West Germany. It draws together a wide range of material on the history of urban development to explore the theoretical and methodological possibilities offered by comparative surveys of contrasting national and regional urban expenses. The chronological focus of the essays ranges in time from the medieval period onwards, and the contributors explore not only the specifically intellectual consequences of their empirical research, but also its policy implications for urban planners and conservationists. Serious extended comparative debate has hitherto been absent from the field of urban historical geography as a whole: this volume sought to reverse that trend, and in so doing to establish a fresh research agenda for an important and expanding discipline.

City Walls
City Walls

Author: James D. Tracy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-09-25

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13: 9780521652216

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The essays presented in this volume, first published in 2000, describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilisation of manpower and resources needed to build them favoured some kinds of polities over others; and their massive strength, appropriately ornamented, created a visual language of authority. Previous collective volumes on the subject have dealt mainly with Europe, but the historians and art historians who collaborate here follow a comparative agenda. The millennial practice of wall building that branched out from the ancient Near East into India, Europe, and North Africa shows continuities and points of contact of which the makers of urban fortifications were scarcely aware; separate traditions in China, sub-Saharan Africa, and North America illustrate universal themes of defensive strategy and the symbolism of power, each time embedded in a distinctive local context.