Mediterranean Urban Culture, 1400-1700

Alexander Cowan editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Exeter

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Was there a distinctive Mediterranean urban culture in the early modern period? In this collection, a team of international scholars from a wide range of disciplines use a variety of approaches - literary, art-historical, cultural, social and economic - to demonstrate both the range of collective urban experience in the Mediterranean and the complexity of the nature of urban culture at that time.



The book, after an Introduction by the editor, is divided into three sections: neighbours and neighbourhoods; religion, ethnicity and minority groups; culture, politics and society. The coherence of the collection sets up resonances and comparisons which confirm a considerable unity in the concept of Mediterranean urban culture in its broadest sense.





“… This is a useful collection of discrete essays in which almost everyone has something new to say which will be of interest to readers of this journal.” (Urban History, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2001) “. . . this collection is an eclectic assemblage of studies of various aspects of Mediterranean history, based on a number of urban centers – principally in the Italian peninsular, and predominantly Venice… This collection contains fascinating material and its authors address key issues in early modern social, . . . economic, . . . and religious history . . . as well as in cultural history traditionally defined.” (JEMH, Vol. 6, No. 4)


ISBN: 9780859895781

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288 pages