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Knowledge and the Early Modern City: A History of Entanglements book cover

1st Edition

Knowledge and the Early Modern City A History of Entanglements

Edited By Bert De Munck, Antonella Romano Copyright 2020
272 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. Both knowledge formation and the European city were increasingly caught up in broader institutional structures and regional and... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Knowledge and the Early Modern City: An Introduction

Bert De Munck & Antonella Romano

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

Anne-Laure Van Bruaene (University of Ghent)

2 Artisanal ‘Histories’ in Early Modern Nuremberg

Hannah Murphy (King’s college London)

3  Boatmen, Druids and Parisii in Lutetia: Archaeologising Parisian Society in Eighteenth-Century Civic Epistemology

Stéphane Van Damme (European University Institute)

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

Marius Buning (Dahlem Humanities Center, Free university of Berlin)

5 Cities, Long-Distance Corporations and Open Air Sciences: Antwerp, Amsterdam and Leiden in the Early Modern Period

Karel Davids (VU University of Amsterdam)

6 Technology Transfer, Ship Design and Urban Policy in the age of Nicolaes Witsen

Daniel Margócsy (University of Cambridge)

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

Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi

8 Roman Urbans Epistemologies: Global Space and Universal Time in the Rebuilding of a Sixteenth-century City

Elisa Andretta (CNRS –LAHRA) & Antonella Romano (Centre Alexandre Koyré – EHESS)

9 The library, the City, the Empire: De-provincialising Vienna in the Early Seventeenth Century  

Paola Molino (University of Padua)

Index

Biography

Bert De Munck is full professor in the History Department at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is a member of the Centre for Urban History, Antwerp, and the director of the interdisciplinary Urban Studies Institute and the international Scientific Research Community (WOG) ‘Urban Agency: The Historical Fabrication of the City as an Object of Study’. His publications include Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300–1800 (2018).

Antonella Romano is full professor of history of science and former director of the Centre Alexandre-Koyré at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Her publications include the edited volume Rome et la science moderne entre Renaissance et Lumières (2008) and Impressions de Chine. L’Europe et l’englobement du monde (16e–17e siècles) (2016).

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