04336nam 2200733 450 991046034810332120181101201813.01-317-11653-41-317-11652-61-4724-3988-0(CKB)3710000000268053(EBL)1825713(OCoLC)894171072(SSID)ssj0001369804(PQKBManifestationID)12591076(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001369804(PQKBWorkID)11289430(PQKB)11012462(MiAaPQ)EBC1825713(EXLCZ)99371000000026805320150117h20142014 uy 0engtxtccrInnovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern European cities /edited by Karel Davids and Bert De MunckSurrey, England ;Burlington, Vermont :Ashgate,2014.©20141 online resource (439 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4724-3987-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities: an Introduction; 2 The Cities of Glass: Privileges and Innovations in Early Modern Europe; 3 Craft Guild Legislation and Woollen Production: the Florentine Arte della Lana; 4 New Products and Technological Innovation in the Silk Industry of Vicenza; 5 To Kill Two Birds with One Stone: Keeping Immigrants in by Granting Free Burghership in Early Modern Antwerp6 The Secret Perfume: Technology and the Organization of Soap Production in Northern Italy 7 Textiles Manufacturing, Product Innovations and Transfers of Technology in Padua and Venice; 8 The Spatial Side of Innovation: the Local Organization of Cultural Production in the Dutch Republic; 9 Beyond Exclusivism: Entrance Fees for Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries; 10 The Coopers' Guilds in Holland, c. 1650-1720: a Market Logic?; 11 The Early Modern Antwerp Coopers' Guild: from a Contract-enforcing Organization to an Empty Box?12 The Paradox of the Antwerp Rose: Symbol of Decline or Token of Craftsmanship?13 Harbouring Urban Creativity: the Antwerp Art Academy in the Tension; 14 Innovation in the Capital City: Central Policies, Markets and Migrant Skills in Neapolitan Ceramic Manufacturing; 15 Innovations, Growth and Mobility in the Secondary Sector of Trieste; Bibliography; IndexLate medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in Renaissance Italy and in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century north-western Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Contributors to this volume set out to analyze whether, in what context and why regulation or deregulation influenced innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern cities, and what the impact was of long-term changes in the political and economic sphere.City and town lifeEurope, WesternCase studiesTechnological innovationsItalyHistoryTechnological innovationsBenelux countriesHistoryUrbanizationEurope, WesternCase studiesGuildsItalyHistoryGuildsBenelux countriesHistoryItalyIntellectual lifeBenelux countriesIntellectual lifeItalyEconomic conditionsBenelux countriesEconomic conditionsElectronic books.City and town lifeTechnological innovationsHistory.Technological innovationsHistory.UrbanizationGuildsHistory.GuildsHistory.940.1Davids Karel241955Davids C. A.1952-Munck Bert De1967-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460348103321Innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern European cities1955760UNINA01258oam 22003974a 450 991052469140332120210915045147.01-4214-3033-9(CKB)4100000010460784(OCoLC)1117491485(MdBmJHUP)muse77200(EXLCZ)99410000001046078420740625g19679999 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFlorence in TransitionVolume Two: Studies in the Rise of the Territorial State /[by] Marvin B. BeckerBaltimore,Johns Hopkins Press[1967-©[1967-1 online resource (v. )1-4214-3075-4 1-4214-2993-4 Bibliography: v. 1, p. 237-254; v. 2, p. 257-268.v. 1. The decline of the commune.--v. 2. Studies in the rise of the territorial state.Florence (Italy)HistoryTo 1421Electronic books. 945/.51Becker Marvin B200464MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524691403321Florence in transition590023UNINA