Knowledge and the early modern city : a history of entanglements /: a history of entanglements. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bert De Munck and Antonella Romano.
• Editors: Munck, Bert De, 1967-; Romano, Antonella
• Contents: List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Knowledge and the Early Modern City: An Introduction Bert De Munck & Antonella Romano 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 Anne-Laure Van Bruaene (University of Ghent) 2 Artisanal ‘Histories’ in Early Modern Nuremberg Hannah Murphy (King’s college London) 3 Boatmen, Druids and Parisii in Lutetia: Archaeologising Parisian Society in Eighteenth-Century Civic Epistemology Stéphane Van Damme (European University Institute) 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 Marius Buning (Dahlem Humanities Center, Free university of Berlin) 5 Cities, Long-Distance Corporations and Open Air Sciences: Antwerp, Amsterdam and Leiden in the Early Modern Period Karel Davids (VU University of Amsterdam) 6 Technology Transfer, Ship Design and Urban Policy in the age of Nicolaes Witsen Daniel Margócsy (University of Cambridge) 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 Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi 8 Roman Urbans Epistemologies: Global Space and Universal Time in the Rebuilding of a Sixteenth-century City Elisa Andretta (CNRS –LAHRA) & Antonella Romano (Centre Alexandre Koyré – EHESS) 9 The library, the City, the Empire: De-provincialising Vienna in the Early Seventeenth Century Paola Molino (University of Padua) Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 307.76094; City and town life -- Europe -- History; Cities and towns -- Europe -- History; Knowledge, Theory of -- Europe -- History; Social change -- Europe -- History; Europe -- Intellectual life; Europe -- Social conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429808432; 9780429808449; 9780429808425; 9780429442223
• Related ISBNs: 9781138337695; 9781138337718
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