Cultural History of Early Modern European Streets
Biographical note
Riitta Laitinen Ph.D. (2000) in Cultural History, University of Turku, Finland, is a Senior Lecturer of Cultural History. She has published, largely in Finnish, on the cultural history of early modern Finnish as well as Navajo Indian space and place.
Thomas V. Cohen Ph.D. (1974) in History, Harvard University, is Professor of History at York University in Toronto. He writes on the cultural anthropology of Renaissance Italy and has recently published Love and Death in Renaissance Italy (University of Chicago, 2004).
Thomas V. Cohen Ph.D. (1974) in History, Harvard University, is Professor of History at York University in Toronto. He writes on the cultural anthropology of Renaissance Italy and has recently published Love and Death in Renaissance Italy (University of Chicago, 2004).
Readership
Those interested in urban history, early modern history, cultural history, and gender history.
Reviews
"Wiith this book, the authors fill the urban spaces of early modern cities with their inhabitants, their social relations, and their cultural practices [...] the authors convincingly show that not all order came from the top down: the emphasis on the agency of the individuals in constructing and reacting to this order is one of the most valuable qualities of this book." Eleonora Canepari, Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d'histoire vol. 45 (Winter) 2010, pp. 605-607.
"Each of these chapters contributes something to our knowledge of streets and street life in early modern Europe. We are still a long way from an understanding of the role of streets in early modern cities that will combine the urbanist and social perspectives into a unified whole. Perhaps some future historian will undertake that task. When he or she does, this collection of essays--and other studies which essays like these are likely to inspire--will be among the indispensable building blocks of that future work."
Christopher R. Friedrichs (University of British Columbia)
Published on H-Urban (January, 2010)
"Each of these chapters contributes something to our knowledge of streets and street life in early modern Europe. We are still a long way from an understanding of the role of streets in early modern cities that will combine the urbanist and social perspectives into a unified whole. Perhaps some future historian will undertake that task. When he or she does, this collection of essays--and other studies which essays like these are likely to inspire--will be among the indispensable building blocks of that future work."
Christopher R. Friedrichs (University of British Columbia)
Published on H-Urban (January, 2010)
Table of contents
Cultural History of Early Modern Streets—An Introduction, Riitta Laitinen with Thomas Cohen
1. Urban Landscapes: Houses, Streets and Squares of 18th Century Lisbon, Maria Helena Barreiros
2. Mechanisms of the Hue and Cry in Kolozsvár in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century, Emese Bálint
3. Urban Order and Street Regulation in Seventeenth-Century Sweden, Riitta Laitinen & Dag Lindström
4. To Pray, To Work, To Hear, To Speak: Women in Roman Streets c. 1600, Elizabeth S. Cohen
5. Gossip and Street Culture in Early Modern Venice, Alexander Cowan
6. To See and To Be Seen: Beauty in the Early Modern London Street, Anu Korhonen
Index
1. Urban Landscapes: Houses, Streets and Squares of 18th Century Lisbon, Maria Helena Barreiros
2. Mechanisms of the Hue and Cry in Kolozsvár in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century, Emese Bálint
3. Urban Order and Street Regulation in Seventeenth-Century Sweden, Riitta Laitinen & Dag Lindström
4. To Pray, To Work, To Hear, To Speak: Women in Roman Streets c. 1600, Elizabeth S. Cohen
5. Gossip and Street Culture in Early Modern Venice, Alexander Cowan
6. To See and To Be Seen: Beauty in the Early Modern London Street, Anu Korhonen
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