Title & Author:

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

Description:

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

Series:

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

Notes:
"This volume originated in two workshops focusing on the "power of spaces" in European cities during the pivotal years that closed the Middle Ages and gave birth to the modern centuries. The first, held in Lyon in 2008 as part of the ninth international congress of the European Asociation of Urban Historians (EAUH), was entitled Urban society as a producer and a product of space. Historians of the city and Henri Lefebvre after 35 years. Two years later, in spring 2010, scholars who had contributed to the Lyon workshop joined other American and French specialists at a conference at Columbia University in New York, The power of space, to examine the particular histories of space in in late Medieval and Renaissance cities of Italy, northern France, and the greater Low Countries. The revised papers from that conference costitute the bulk of this volume."--Introduction, page 1.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Contributions in English and French.

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")."-- Publisher's website.

Resources:
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9782503547848 (pbk.)
2503547842 (pbk.)
9782503548227
2503548229

Subject:

Cities and towns, Medieval Europe Congresses.
Middle Ages Congresses.
Cities and towns, Medieval Congresses.
Villes médiévales Congrès.
Moyen Âge Congrès.
Cities and towns, Medieval
Middle Ages
Öffentlicher Raum
Stadtgestaltung
Raumordnung
Europe
Frankreich Nord
Italien
Niederlande
Italie.
France.
Pays-Bas.
Belgique.

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Boone, Marc, editor.
Howell, Martha C., editor.
City and Society in the Low Countries (ca. 1200-ca. 1850) (Project)
Studies in European urban history (1100-1800) ; 30.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289429
Call No.: BIB 231897
Status: Available