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Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Society, C.1400-c.1600 (Hardback)
Imprint: Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9780866984829
Published: 31st March 2013
Script Academic & Professional
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9780866984829
Published: 31st March 2013
Script Academic & Professional
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This is a fascinating and wide-ranging collection of case studies on the creation of identity in late medieval and Renaissance urban society. At a time of far-reaching political, religious, and social changes, towns were at the forefront of this transformation of European society, their citizens frequently engaged in the struggle for autonomy. When negotiating relationship with the Church, the Crown, and within the town's own competing constituencies, townsmen were able to manipulate factors such as time and space in their pursuit of honour, status, commemoration, reputation, and power. The resulting town studies are arranged thematically-the view from the inside; the view from the outside-being set within contemporary cultural developments. Thus the collection highlights the differing strategies and approaches employed by towns, seeing such variation as indicative of the importance of the particular within the study of European urban society. The introductory discussion explores overarching themes and cross-cultural similarities, and professor Caroline Barron provides a masterly concluding essay.
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