Knowledge and the early modern city : a history of entanglements /

"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 po...

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Group Author: Munck, Bert De, 1967; Romano, Antonella
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon :
Publication Dates: 2020.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Knowledge societies in history
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Summary: "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"--
Carrier Form: xv, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781138337718
1138337714
9781138337695
1138337692
Index Number: HT131
CLC: C912.81-095
Call Number: C912.81-095/K733
Contents: Knowledge and the early modern city : an introduction / Bert De Munck & Antonella Romano -- The theatrum as an urban site of knowledge in the Low Countries, c. 1560-1620 / Anne-Laure Van Bruaene -- Artisanal "histories" in early modern Nuremberg / Hannah Murphy -- Boatmen, Druids and Parisii in Lutetia : archaeologising Parisian society in eighteenth-century civic epistemology / Stéphane Van Damme -- Stench and the city : urban odours and technological innovation in early modern Leiden and Batavia / Marius Buning -- Cities, long-distance corporations and open air sciences : Antwerp, Amster