The Artisan and the European Town, 1500-1900 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Crossick, Geoffrey

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Artisans played a central role in the European town as it developed from the Middles Ages onwards. Their workshops were at the heart of productive activity, their guilds were often central to the political and legal order of towns, and their culture helped shape civic ritual and the urban order. These essays, which have all been specially written for this collection, explore the relationships between artisans and their towns across Europe between the beginning of the early-modern period and the end of the 19th century. They pay special attention to the processes of economic, juridicial and political change that have made the 18th and early 19th centuries a period of such significance. Written by leading historians of European artisans, the essays question the myths about artisans that have long pervaded research in the field. The leading myth was that shared by the artisans themselves - the myth of decline and the belief in each generation that artisans in the past had inhabited a better age. These essays open up for debate the nature of artisanship, the way economic change affected craft production, the political role of artisans, the cultural identification of the artisans with work and masculinity, and the way changing urban society and changing urban structure posed threats to which the artisans had to respond.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351894470
• Artikelnr.: 49354832

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Crossick

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Past masters: in search of the artisan in European history,
Geoffrey Crossick; Artisans and urban politics in 17th-century Germany,
Christopher R. Friedrichs; Cultural analysis and early-modern artisans,
James R. Farr; 'Broken all in pieces': artisans and the regulation of
workmanship in early-modern London, Michael Berlin ; The aristocratic
hÿtel and its artisans in 18th-century Paris: the market ruled by court
society, Natacha Coquery; Craftsmen and revolution in Bordeaux, Josette
Pontet; Craftsmen in the political and symbolic order: the case of
18th-century Malmö, Lars Edgren; Women and the craft guilds in
18th-century Nantes, Elizabeth Musgrave; Worlds of mobility: migration
patterns of Viennese artisans in the 18th-century, Josef Ehmer; Artisans in
Hungarian towns on the eve of industrialization, Vera Bácskai; Urban
renovation and changes in artisans' activities: the Parisian Fabrique in
the Arts et Métiers quarter during the Second Empire, Florence Bourillon;
Artisans and the labour markert in Dutch provincial capitals around 1900,
Pim Kooij; Index.