Towns and Cities of the Croatian Middle Ages
Author: Irena Benyovsky
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9789537840303
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Cities and Solidarities
Author: Justin Colson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-01-06
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1351983628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCities 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.
Networking in Late Medieval Central Europe
Author: Beata Możejko
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-02-10
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1000839141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists, and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region. These individuals were friends in business ventures, occasionally families, and not infrequently foes. No single activity linked them, but rather their interconnectivity through matrices based in diverse modalities was key. Partnerships were not always friendship networks, art was sometimes passed between enemies, and families created for financial gain. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters focus on inclusion and exclusion within intercultural networks, both interpersonal and artistic, using a wide spectrum of source materials and methodological approaches. The concept of friends is considered broadly, not only as connections of mutual affection but also simply through business relationships. Families are considered in terms of how they helped or hindered local integration for foreigners and the matrimonial strategies they pursued. Networks were also deeply impacted by rivalry and hostility.
Croatia in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Author: Ivo Supičić
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 882
ISBN-13:
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Cities of Strangers
Author: Miri Rubin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-19
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1108599974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 and 1500. Some city-states enjoyed considerable autonomy which allowed them to legislate on how newcomers might settle and become citizens in support of a common good. Such communities invited bankers, merchants, physicians, notaries and judges to settle and help produce good urban living. Dynastic rulers also shaped immigration, often inviting groups from afar to settle and help their cities flourish. All cities accommodated a great deal of difference - of language, religion, occupation - in shared spaces, regulated by law. But when, from around 1350, plague began regularly to occur within European cities, this benign cycle began to break down. High mortality rates led eventually to demographic crises and, as a result, less tolerant and more authoritarian attitudes emerged, resulting in violent expulsions of even long-settled groups. Tracing the development of urban institutions and using a wide range of sources from across Europe, Miri Rubin recreates a complex picture of urban life for settled and migrant communities over the course of five centuries and offers an innovative vantage point on Europe's past with insights for its present.
Slavs in the Middle Ages Between Idea and Reality
Author: Eduard Mühle
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9004536744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting the history of the Slavs in the Middle Ages in a new light, this study shows how the 'Slavs' were treated as a cultural construct and as such politically instrumentalized, and describes the real structures behind the phenomenon.
Handbook of Research on Creative Cities and Advanced Models for Knowledge-Based Urban Development
Author: Galaby, Aly Abdel Razek
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2020-10-09
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 179984949X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscussing global society entails discussing the predominant characteristics of knowledge-based activities in all walks of life. Its main characteristics are based on creativity, innovation, freedom, and networking. The emergence of such a society poses several challenges to all disciplines of social sciences. Within such a context, sociologists must have practical encounters to the theoretical, methodological, and empirical challenges imposed within contemporary global society. In this vein, studying creative cities from an interdisciplinary perspective helps provide critical readings of the phenomenon and the different levels of the concept in reality. The Handbook of Research on Creative Cities and Advanced Models for Knowledge-Based Urban Development provides global models and best practices of creative cities worldwide and illustrates different theoretical blueprints for the better understanding of contemporary global society. While defining key concepts of creative cities, global society, and creative class, the book also clarifies the main differences between hubs, parks, and precincts and their contributions to knowledge-based development. Covering topics that include knowledge economy, social inclusion, and urban mobility, this comprehensive reference is ideal for sociologists, urban planners/designers, political scientists, economists, anthropologists, historians, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and students.
Lords and Towns in Medieval Europe
Author: Howard B. Clarke
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-14
Total Pages: 575
ISBN-13: 1351921290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the first publication to draw upon the mass of information provided by the Historic Towns Atlases in order to explore comparative questions in medieval urban history. The volume addresses the wider question of comparative urban studies, the processes that determined the morphological formation of towns, and the symbolic meaning of large-scale town plans in their cultural context.
The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Bronach C. Kane
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-10-14
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1317032349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The Kings of the Slavs
Author: Wawrzyniec Kowalski
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-05-12
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9004447636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja is a mysterious narrative source covering the Slavic presence on the Adriatic coast and its hinterland. This study offers a new interpretation of the text, based on the recognition of the figures of model rulers.
