Description
As transfer points between different economic and cultural zones, cities are crucial to shaping processes of cultural exchange. Urban culture embraces cultural traits borrowed or imported from afar and those of local neighbourhoods, professions and social groups, yet it also offers possibilities for the survival of minority identities. This volume compares the characteristics and patterns of change in the spaces, sites and building, which expressed and shaped inter-cultural relationships within the cities of early modern Europe, especially in their ethnic, religious and international dimensions. A central theme is the role of foreigners and the spaces and buildings associated with them from ghettos, churches and hospitals to colleges, inns and markets. Individual studies include Greeks in Italian cities and London; the 'Cities of Jews' in Italy and the place of ghettos in the European imagination; and the contributions of foreign merchants to the growth of Amsterdam as a commercial metropolis.
This volume surveys the crucial role of cities in shaping cultural exchange in early modern Europe.
About the Author
Donatella Calabi is Professor of Urban History at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura of Venice. She specialises in town planning between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Her previous publications include The Market and the City (2004). Stephen Turk Christensen has published articles on European-Byzantine-Ottoman relations during the fifteenth century. His publications include Cultural Traffic and Cultural Transformation around the Baltic Sea, 1450-1720 (editor, with B. Noldus, 2003).
Reviews
'For historians of religion, volume one contains some real treats ... Beautifully illustrated, finely argued, and richly researched, it is genuine scholarship of highest order. ... this book makes a real contribution to our understanding of European religion between 1400 and 1700.' Church Times
Book Information
ISBN 9780521845472
Author Donatella Calabi
Format Hardback
Page Count 454
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 866g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 162mm * 32mm
This volume surveys the crucial role of cities in shaping cultural exchange in early modern Europe.
About the Author
Donatella Calabi is Professor of Urban History at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura of Venice. She specialises in town planning between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Her previous publications include The Market and the City (2004). Stephen Turk Christensen has published articles on European-Byzantine-Ottoman relations during the fifteenth century. His publications include Cultural Traffic and Cultural Transformation around the Baltic Sea, 1450-1720 (editor, with B. Noldus, 2003).
Reviews
'For historians of religion, volume one contains some real treats ... Beautifully illustrated, finely argued, and richly researched, it is genuine scholarship of highest order. ... this book makes a real contribution to our understanding of European religion between 1400 and 1700.' Church Times
Book Information
ISBN 9780521845472
Author Donatella Calabi
Format Hardback
Page Count 454
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 866g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 162mm * 32mm
