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Title

The power of space in late medieval and early modern Europe : the cities of Italy, northern France and the Low Countries / edited by Marc Boone & Martha Howell.

Publication

• Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2013]
• ©2013

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Additional Authors

• Boone, Marc
• Howell, Martha C.
• City and Society in the Low Countries (ca. 1200-ca. 1850) (Project)

Description

vi, 215 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.

Summary

"This volume examines the politics of space in the most densely urbanized areas of Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. It ranges from Italy to the Parisian region and then to the greater Low Countries, home of Europe's most powerful commercial cities of the period. Hardly inert sites on which political action took place, the spaces these authors investigate conferred power on those who possessed them. At the same time they were themselves transformed by the struggles, thus acquiring new powers that invited future contest. Thus implicitly responding to Georges Lefebvre's claim that space is "produced", the authors ask how space was perceived and used in everyday life, giving specific spaces cultural, social, and political coherence ("le perçu"); how it was represented or theorized, thus encoded in symbols, maps and laws ("le conçu"); and how it was lived, in effect the result of the dialectical relation between the perceived and the represented ("le vécu")."--

Series Statement

SEUH, Studies in European urban history (1100-1800) ; 30

Uniform Title

Studies in European urban history (1100-1800) ; 30.

Subjects

• Middle Ages > Congresses
• Cities and towns, Medieval > Europe > Congresses

Genre/Form

• v – Proceedings.
• Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• International conference proceedings, 2008 in Lyon and 2010, New York.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in an electronic version.

Language (note)

• 7 English, 6 French contributions.

Contents

Introduction / Marc Boone & Martha Howell -- Space politics and images of power. The urban renewal of Naples during the Renaissance / Marco Vencato -- Powers over space, spaces of powers. The constitution of town squares in the cities of the Low Countries (12th-14th century) / Chloé Deligne -- City limits and state formation : territorial jurisdiction in late Medieval and early modern Lille / Ellen Wurtzel -- L'espace économique comme lieu de reconstruction politique à Lucques à la fin du XIV e siècle / Diane Chamboduc de Saint Pulgent -- Petites villes et espace fluvial : pratiques sociales et conflits d'usage autour de Paris au XVe siècle / Pierre-Henri Guittonneau -- From cuckoo's egg to "sedem tyranni". The princely citadels in the cities of the Low Countries, or the city's spatial integrity hijacked (15th-early 16th centuries) / Marc Boone -- Instaurator et fundator : édification de la seigneurie urbaine et présence monumentale de la commune (Italie centrale, fin du Moyen Âge) / Jean-Baptiste Delzant -- La proximité en négatif : pratiques de stigmatisation et espaces du quotidien dans l'Italie de la Renaissance / Elizabeth Crouzet-Pavan -- The space of punishments : reflections on the expression and perception of judgment and punishment in the cities of the Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages / Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin -- Sacred space contested : Amsterdam in the age of the Reformation / Henk van Nierop -- Espace d'ici-bas et espace de l'Au-delà : la violence catholique à la recherche de la cité de Dieu (France, 1560-1598) / Denis Crouzet -- La construction d'une centralité : Bruxelles dans le duché de Brabant au bas Moyen Âge / Claude Billen -- The city in a world of cities : Antwerp and the Civitates Orbis Terrarum / Peter Arnade.

ISBN

• 9782503547848
• 2503547842
• 9782503548227
• 2503548229

OCLC

• ocn846556684
• 846556684
• SCSB-1694344

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library