Mediterranean Urban Culture, 1400-1700
by Alexander Cowan (Editor)
- Synopsis
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In this collection, a team of international scholars marked by the diversity of their backgrounds and of their approaches demonstrate both the range of collective urban experience in the Mediterranean and the complexity of urban culture in this period.This collection of essays addresses two key questions: what is urban culture? and to what extent can we speak about a distinctive Mediterranean urban culture in the early modern period? Scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds in social, economic, art and architectural history, examine a range of case studies that reveal the variety and complexity of urban experience in the Mediterranean region, but also a significant degree of unity and distinctiveness within it.
- Contents
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- The Myth of the Mediterranean City: Perceptions of Sociability
- James Amelang, Free University Madrid
- Neighbourhoods and Local Loyalties in Renaissance Venice
- Joseph Wheeler, University of London
- Foreigners and the City: The Case of the Immigrant Merchant
- Alexander Cowan, Northumbria University
- The Jews and the City in the Mediterranean Area
- Donatella Calabi, Architectural University of Venice
- The Culture of the Street: the Calle de la Feria in Córdoba, 1470-1520
- John Edwards
- Between Heresy and Free Thought, between the Mediterranean and the North: Heterodox Women in Seventeenth-Century Venice
- Federica Ambrosini, University of Padua
- The Cities of Puglia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Their Economy and Society
- Eleni Sakellariou, University of Joaninna
- Economic Conditions in Thessaloniki between the two Ottoman Occupations
- Alan Harvey, Northumbria University
- Venetian Modon and its Port, 1358-1500
- Ruth Gertwagen, University of Haifa
- The Port Towns of the Levant in Sixteenth-Century Travel Literature
- Benjamin Arbel, University of Tel Aviv
- The Cultural Dynamics of Representational Space in Venetian Renaissance Painting
- Tom Nichols, University of Aberdeen
- As Much for its Culture as for its Arms': The Cultural Relations of Venice and its Dependent Cities, 1400-1700
- Nicholas Davidson, University of Oxford
- Pages:
- 240
- Publisher:
- University of Exeter Press (13 May 2004)
- Language:
- English
- ISBN-10:
- 0859895785
- ISBN-13:
- 978-0859895781