Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in a period when the nature and conception of both was drastically transformed.
Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in a period when the nature and conception of both was drastically transformed.
Bert De Munck is full professor in the History Department at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is a member of the Centre for Urban History, Antwerp, and the director of the interdisciplinary Urban Studies Institute and the international Scientific Research Community (WOG) 'Urban Agency: The Historical Fabrication of the City as an Object of Study'. His publications include Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300-1800 (2018). Antonella Romano is full professor of history of science and former director of the Centre Alexandre-Koyré at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Her publications include the edited volume Rome et la science moderne entre Renaissance et Lumières (2008) and Impressions de Chine. L'Europe et l'englobement du monde (16e-17e siècles) (2016).
Inhaltsangabe
Knowledge and the Early Modern City: An Introduction Part 1. Knowledge and the Staging of the City 1 The theatrum as an Urban Site of Knowledge in the Low Countries, c. 1560-1620 2 Artisanal 'Histories' in Early Modern Nuremberg 3 Boatmen, Druids and Parisii in Lutetia: Archaeologising Parisian Society in Eighteenth-Century Civic Epistemology Part 2. Urban Agency, Science, Technology and the Making of the City 4 Stench and the City. Urban Odours and Technological Innovation in Early Modern Leiden and Batavia 5 Cities, Long-Distance Corporations and Open Air Sciences: Antwerp, Amsterdam and Leiden in the Early Modern Period 6 Technology Transfer, Ship Design and Urban Policy in the age of Nicolaes Witsen Part 3. Imperial Cities, Knowledge for Empires? 7 André de Avelar and the City of Coimbra: Spaces of Knowledge and Belief during the Early Modern Iberian Union 8 Roman Urbans Epistemologies: Global Space and Universal Time in the Rebuilding of a Sixteenth-century City 9 The library, the City, the Empire: De-provincialising Vienna in the Early Seventeenth Century
Knowledge and the Early Modern City: An Introduction Part 1. Knowledge and the Staging of the City 1 The theatrum as an Urban Site of Knowledge in the Low Countries, c. 1560-1620 2 Artisanal 'Histories' in Early Modern Nuremberg 3 Boatmen, Druids and Parisii in Lutetia: Archaeologising Parisian Society in Eighteenth-Century Civic Epistemology Part 2. Urban Agency, Science, Technology and the Making of the City 4 Stench and the City. Urban Odours and Technological Innovation in Early Modern Leiden and Batavia 5 Cities, Long-Distance Corporations and Open Air Sciences: Antwerp, Amsterdam and Leiden in the Early Modern Period 6 Technology Transfer, Ship Design and Urban Policy in the age of Nicolaes Witsen Part 3. Imperial Cities, Knowledge for Empires? 7 André de Avelar and the City of Coimbra: Spaces of Knowledge and Belief during the Early Modern Iberian Union 8 Roman Urbans Epistemologies: Global Space and Universal Time in the Rebuilding of a Sixteenth-century City 9 The library, the City, the Empire: De-provincialising Vienna in the Early Seventeenth Century
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