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Cities and Solidarities: Urban Communities in Pre-Modern Europe book cover

1st Edition

Cities and Solidarities Urban Communities in Pre-Modern Europe

Edited By Justin Colson, Arie van Steensel Copyright 2017
292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge
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Cities 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... Read more

Contents



List of figures and tables



Preface



List of contributors









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




    2. Justin Colson and Arie van Steensel







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




    3. Carolina Obradors-Suazo







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




    4. Derek M. Crosby







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




    5. Colin Arnaud







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




    6. John Jordan







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




    7. Suzana Miljan and Bruno Škreblin







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




    8. Hadewijch Masure







  8. Who’s who in late medieval Brussels?




    9. Bram Vannieuwenhuyze







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




    10. Dana Durkee







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




    11. Andy Burn







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




    12. Árpád Tóth, Gábor Czoch and István Németh







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

Biography

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.

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