Cultural history of early modern European streets / / edited by Riitta Laitinen, Thomas V. Cohen.

• TeilnehmendeR: Laitinen, Riitta.; Cohen, Thomas V. 1942-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill eBook titles 2009
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (182 p.)
• Notes: "Originally published as volume 12, nos. 3-4 (2008) of Brill's journal Journal of early modern history"--T.p. verso.

In urban life, streets are elemental, but urban history seldom places them centre stage. It tends to view them as mere backdrops for events or social relations, or to study them as material constructions, the fruit of urban planning, but largely vacant of inhabitants. Examining people and streets in tandem, the contributors to this volume strive towards more integrated urban history. They discuss the social and political processes of early modern street life, and the discursive play in which streets figured. Six chapters, based in Sweden-Finland, England, Portugal, Italy, and Transylvania, discuss the subtle interplay of the material and immaterial, public and private, planned order and versatility, spontaneous invention, control and resistance – all matters central to how streets worked. Contributors are Emese Bálint, Maria Helena Barreiros, Elizabeth S. Cohen, Thomas V. Cohen, Alexander Cowan, Anu Korhonen, Riitta Laitinen, and Dag Lindström.

Table of Contents

Cultural history of early modern European streets : an introduction / Riitta Laitinen and Thomas V. Cohen -- Urban landscapes : houses, streets and squares of 18th century Lisbon / Maria Helena Barreiros -- Mechanisms of the hue and cry in Kolozsvar in the second half of the sixteenth century / Emese Balint -- Urban order and street regulation in seventeenth-century Sweden / Riitta Laitinen and Dag Lindstrom -- To pray, to work, to hear, to speak : women in Roman streets, c. 1600 / Elizabeth S. Cohen -- Gossip and street culture in early modern Venice / Alexander Cowan -- To see and to be seen : beauty in the early modern London street / Anu Korhonen.