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      Knowledge and the Early Modern City
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      Knowledge and the Early Modern City

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      Knowledge and the Early Modern City book

      A History of Entanglements

      Knowledge and the Early Modern City

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      Knowledge and the Early Modern City book

      A History of Entanglements
      Edited ByBert De Munck, Antonella Romano
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 9 September 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429442223
      Pages 272
      eBook ISBN 9780429442223
      Subjects Humanities
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      De Munck, B., & Romano, A. (Eds.). (2019). Knowledge and the Early Modern City: A History of Entanglements (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429442223

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      Both knowledge formation and the European city were increasingly caught up in broader institutional structures and regional and global networks of trade and exchange during the early modern period. Moreover, new ideas about the relationship between nature and the transcendent, as well as technological transformations, impacted upon both considerably. This book addresses the entanglement between knowledge production and the early modern urban environment while incorporating approaches to the city and knowledge in which both are seen as emerging from hybrid networks in which human and non-human elements continually interact and acquire meaning. It highlights how new forms of knowledge and new conceptions of the urban co-emerged in highly contingent practices, shedding a new light on present-day ideas about the impact of cities on knowledge production and innovation.

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |30 pages

      Knowledge and the early modern city

      An introduction
      ByBert De Munck, Antonella Romano

      part Part I|2 pages

      Knowledge and the staging of the city

      chapter 1|25 pages

      The theatrum as an urban site of knowledge in the Low Countries, c. 1560–1620

      ByAnne-Laure Van Bruaene

      chapter 2|21 pages

      Artisanal ‘histories’ in early modern Nuremberg

      ByHannah Murphy

      chapter 3|20 pages

      Boatmen, Druids and Parisii in Lutetia

      Archaeologising Parisian society in eighteenth-century civic epistemology
      ByStéphane Van Damme

      part Part II|2 pages

      Urban agency, science, technology and the making of the city

      chapter 4|25 pages

      Stench and the city

      Urban odors and technological innovation in early modern Leiden and Batavia
      ByMarius Buning

      chapter 5|23 pages

      Cities, long-distance corporations and open air sciences

      Antwerp, Amsterdam and Leiden in the early modern period
      ByKarel Davids

      chapter 6|22 pages

      Technology transfer, ship design and urban policy in the age of Nicolaes Witsen

      ByDániel Margócsy

      part Part III|2 pages

      Imperial cities, knowledge for empires?

      chapter 7|24 pages

      André de Avelar and the city of Coimbra

      Spaces of knowledge and belief during the early modern Iberian Union
      ByLeonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi

      chapter 8|26 pages

      Roman urban epistemologies

      Global space and universal time in the rebuilding of a sixteenth-century city
      ByElisa Andretta, Antonella Romano

      chapter 9|27 pages

      The library, the city, the empire

      De-provincialising Vienna in the early seventeenth century
      ByPaola Molino
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