Cultural History of Early Modern European Streets

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17251-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

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 Bálint, Maria Helena Barreiros, Elizabeth S. Cohen, Thomas V. Cohen, Alexander Cowan, Anu Korhonen, Riitta Laitinen, and Dag Lindström.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laitinen, Riitta

Cohen, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Kolozsvár in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century, Emese Bálint

3. Urban Order and Street Regulation in Seventeenth-Century Sweden, Riitta Laitinen & Dag Lindström

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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Riitta Laitinen Ph.D. (2000) in Cultural History, University of Turku, Finland, is a Senior Lecturer of Cultural History. She has published, largely in Finnish, on the cultural history of early modern Finnish as well as Navajo Indian space and place.
Thomas V. Cohen Ph.D. (1974) in History, Harvard University, is Professor of History at York University in Toronto. He writes on the cultural anthropology of Renaissance Italy and has recently published Love and Death in Renaissance Italy (University of Chicago, 2004).