1st Edition
Writing Cities Exploring Early Modern Urban Discourse
By James S. Amelang
Copyright 2020
272 Pages
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Central European University Press
Only one out of ten early modern Europeans lived in cities. Yet cities were crucial nodes, joining together producers and consumers, rulers and ruled, and believers in diverse faiths and futures. They also generated an enormous amount of writing, much of which focused on civic life itself. But despite its obvious importance, historians have paid surprisingly little attention to urban discourse;... Read more
Prologue, Chapter 1. Authors: Assembling an Ensemble Chapter 2. Facades: Defining Urban Beauty Chapter 3. Dialogues: Talking the Town, A Personal Epilogue, Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, Index
Biography
James Amelang is Professor of Early Modern History at Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain.
