Cultural history of early modern European streets
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Cultural history of early modern European streets
Brill, 2009
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Journal of early modern history
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"Originally published as volume 12, nos. 3-4 (2008) of Brill's journal Journal of early modern history"--T.p. verso
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Description
In urban life, streets are elemental, but urban history seldom places them centre stage. It tends to view them as mere backdrops for events or social relations, or to study them as material constructions, the fruit of urban planning, but largely vacant of inhabitants. Examining people and streets in tandem, the contributors to this volume strive towards more integrated urban history. They discuss the social and political processes of early modern street life, and the discursive play in which streets figured. Six chapters, based in Sweden-Finland, England, Portugal, Italy, and Transylvania, discuss the subtle interplay of the material and immaterial, public and private, planned order and versatility, spontaneous invention, control and resistance - all matters central to how streets worked.
Contributors are Emese Balint, Maria Helena Barreiros, Elizabeth S. Cohen, Thomas V. Cohen, Alexander Cowan, Anu Korhonen, Riitta Laitinen, and Dag Lindstroem.
Table of Contents
Cultural History of Early Modern Streets-An Introduction, Riitta Laitinen with Thomas Cohen
1. Urban Landscapes: Houses, Streets and Squares of 18th Century Lisbon, Maria Helena Barreiros
2. Mechanisms of the Hue and Cry in Kolozsvar in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century, Emese Balint
3. Urban Order and Street Regulation in Seventeenth-Century Sweden, Riitta Laitinen & Dag Lindstroem
4. To Pray, To Work, To Hear, To Speak: Women in Roman Streets c. 1600, Elizabeth S. Cohen
5. Gossip and Street Culture in Early Modern Venice, Alexander Cowan
6. To See and To Be Seen: Beauty in the Early Modern London Street, Anu Korhonen
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