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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792366803321

Titolo

Cultural history of early modern European streets [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Riitta Laitinen, Thomas V. Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-60174-1

9786612601743

90-474-2598-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Brill eBook titles 2009

Altri autori (Persone)

LaitinenRiitta

CohenThomas V <1942-> (Thomas Vance)

Disciplina

307.76094

Soggetti

Street life - Europe - History

Streets - Europe - History

City and town life - Europe - History

Cities and towns - Europe - History

Europe Social life and customs

Europe Social conditions

Europe History, Local

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published as volume 12, nos. 3-4 (2008) of Brill's journal Journal of early modern history"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cultural history of early modern European streets : an introduction / Riitta Laitinen and Thomas V. Cohen -- Urban landscapes : houses, streets and squares of 18th century Lisbon / Maria Helena Barreiros -- Mechanisms of the hue and cry in Kolozsvár in the second half of the sixteenth century / Emese Bálint -- Urban order and street regulation in seventeenth-century Sweden / Riitta Laitinen and Dag Lindström -- To pray, to work, to hear, to speak : women in Roman streets, c. 1600 / Elizabeth S. Cohen -- Gossip and street culture in early modern Venice / Alexander Cowan -- To see and to be seen : beauty in the early modern London street / Anu Korhonen.

Sommario/riassunto

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.