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During the last decades, representations of medieval and early modern urban space have witnessed an increasing popularity as objects of study within the historical disciplines. Scholars with different backgrounds investigate urban landscapes in various forms and using a wide range of media. In general, such ‘portraits of the city’ cover different types of visual and written documents. The twelve essays gathered in this book all cover specific types of such portraits, ranging from historiographical texts and archival record, over drawings, prints and paintings to maps and real urban architectural settings. Moreover, the interdisciplinary scope results in an ample compilation of various innovative methodologies, currently applied in the fields of study and disciplines addressed in the book. ‘Portraits of the City’ provides a representative overview of the current state of knowledge and is in this way a relevant contribution to the international debate on representations of the city. -- provided by publisher

History of Europe --- History of civilization --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Cities and towns, Medieval --- Cities and towns, Medieval, in art --- Cities and towns, Renaissance --- Villes médiévales --- Villes médiévales dans l'art --- Villes de la Renaissance --- Stadsgeschiedenis (wetenschap). --- 930.85.42 --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Stadsgeschiedenis (wetenschap) --- 930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Villes médiévales --- Villes médiévales dans l'art --- History.

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Natural hazards punctuate the history of European towns, moulding their shape and identity: this book is devoted to the artistic representation of those calamities, from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. It contains nine case studies which discuss, among others, the relationship between biblical imagery and the realistic depiction of urban disasters; the religious, political and ritual meanings of “destruction subjects” in early modern painting; the image of fire in Renaissance treatises on architecture; the first photographic campaigns documenting earthquakes’ damages; the role of contemporary art in the elaboration of a cultural memory of urban destructions. Thus, this book intends to address one of the main issues of Western civilization: the relationship of European towns with their own past and its discontinuities. Contributors are Alessandro Del Puppo, Isabella di Lenardo, Marco Folin, Sophie Goetzmann, Emanuela Guidoboni, Philippe Malgouyres, Olga Medvedkova, Fabrizio Nevola, Monica Preti and Tiziana Serena.

cityscapes [representations] --- cities --- Art --- ruined settlements --- Cities and towns in art. --- Disasters in art. --- Cities and towns --- Disasters --- Villes dans l'art --- Catastrophes dans l'art --- Villes --- Catastrophes --- Cities and towns in art --- Disasters in art --- ART / Subjects & Themes / General. --- Cities and towns -- Europe. --- Disasters -- Europe. --- Cities and towns. --- Disasters. --- Europe. --- Art / subjects & themes / general. --- Cities and towns -- europe. --- Disasters -- europe. --- Calamities --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Villages in art --- Curiosities and wonders --- Accidents --- Hazardous geographic environments --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Iconography --- History of Europe --- art [fine art] --- wars --- iconography --- disasters --- Cities and towns - Europe --- Disasters - Europe --- art [discipline]

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A selection of essays by an international group of historians and art historians on the rich urban culture of the sixteenth-century Low Countries. The authors of this volume examine various fields of cultural discourse in the Netherlands of the sixteenth century: the political, commercial, religious, artistic, and sensory domains, and less obviously metaphysical properties like time and space. What defined the Low Countries were not its borders and its territories but its cities, and their economies dominated political relations. A dense network of large cities and small towns developed hand in hand with a broad range of textile and luxury industries. In Antwerp, culture was commerce: its art and printing industries catered to much of the Western world and, at the same time, carved a confident self-image celebrating the liberal arts as a means of social and self-improvement. Antwerp is omnipresent in this book, with essays on its painting, printing, politics, and public festivals. But other cities such as Bruges, Leuven, and Leiden also figure prominently. It was precisely the interconnectedness of urban centers, large, middle and small, rather than their autonomous character, that defined civic culture in the Low Countries. Among the topics treated are differing notions of urban topography, the dialogue between city and court, issues of censorship, and the sensory and psychological response to texts and images--éd.

Villes --- History of civilization --- History of the Low Countries --- anno 1500-1599 --- Cities and towns --- City and town life --- History --- Netherlands --- Belgium --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Cultuurgeschiedenis --- Geschiedenis van de Nederlanden --- Cities --- Cities and towns. --- City and town life. --- Civilization. --- Intellectual life. --- Art, Dutch --- Art, Belgian --- 1500-1599. --- Belgium. --- Netherlands. --- cultuurgeschiedenis

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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. Providing the ideal starting point for those seeking to understand the role of urban institutions, actors and spaces in the production of knowledge and the development of the so-called 'modern' knowledge society, this is the perfect resource for students and scholars of early modern history and knowledge. --

Sociology of environment --- History of Europe --- epistemology --- knowledge --- anno 1500-1799 --- City and town life --- Vie urbaine --- Cities and towns --- Villes --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Social change --- Changement social --- History. --- Histoire. --- Europe --- Intellectual life. --- Vie intellectuelle. --- Social conditions. --- Conditions sociales --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Vie intellectuelle

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"The Southern Low Countries were among Europe's core regions for the repression of sodomy during the late medieval period. As the first comprehensive study on sodomy in the Southern Low Countries, this book charts the prosecution of sodomy in some of the region's leading cities, such as Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp, from 1400 to 1700 and explains the reasons behind local differences and variations in the intensity of prosecution over time. Through a critical examination of a range of sources, this study also considers how the urban fabric perceived sodomy and provides a broader interpretive framework for its meaning, and menace, for the local culture"--

Cities and towns --- Homosexualité masculine --- Male homosexuality --- Sodomy --- Villes --- History --- Histoire --- Homosexualité masculine. --- Sodomie (relations sexuelles) --- History. --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- History of the Low Countries --- urban history --- homosexuality --- Zuidelijke Nederlanden --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Flanders