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Lords And Towns In Medieval Europe Howard B Clarke Anngret Simms

SKU: BELL-42718900

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 16.14 MB

Pages: 574

Author: Howard B. Clarke, Anngret Simms

ISBN: 9781351921282, 9780754663546, 1351921282, 075466354X

Language: English

Year: 2017

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Lords And Towns In Medieval Europe Howard B Clarke Anngret Simms by Howard B. Clarke, Anngret Simms 9781351921282, 9780754663546, 1351921282, 075466354X instant download after payment.

This volume is based on possibly the biggest single Europe-wide
project in urban history. In 1955 the International Commission for the
History of Towns established the European historic towns atlas project
in accordance with a common scheme in order to encourage comparative
urban studies. Although advances in urban archaeology since the 1960s
have highlighted the problematic relationship between the oldest extant
town plan and the actual origins of a town, the large-scale cadastral
maps as they have been made available by the European historic towns
atlas project are still necessary if we want to understand the evolution
of the physical form of our towns. By 2014 the project consisted of
over 500 individual publications from over 18 different countries across
Europe. Each atlas comprises at least a core-map at the scale of
1:2500, analytical maps and an explanatory text. The time has come to
use this enormous database that has been compiled over the last 40
years. This volume, itself based on a conference related to this topic
that was held in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin in 2006, takes up
this challenge. The focus of the volume is on the question of how
seigneurial power influenced the creation of towns in medieval Europe
and of how this process in turn influenced urban form. Part I of the
volume addresses two major issues: the history of the use of town plans
in urban research and the methodological challenges of comparative urban
history. Parts II and III constitute the core of the book focusing on
the dynamic relationship between lordship and town planning in the core
area of medieval Europe and on the periphery. In Part IV the symbolic
meaning of town plans for medieval people is discussed. Part V consists
of critical contributions by an archaeologist, an art historian and an
historical geographer. By presenting case studies by leading researchers
from different European countries, this volume combines findings that
were hitherto not available in English. A comparison of the English and
German bibliographies, attached to this volume, reveals some interesting
insights as to how the focus of research shifted over time. The book
also shows how work on urban topography integrates the approaches of the
historian, archaeologist and historical geographer. The narrative of
medieval urbanization becomes enriched and the volume is a genuine
contribution to European studies.