The Early Modern City 1450-1750

The Early Modern City 1450-1750
ISBN-10
1317901843
ISBN-13
9781317901846
Category
History
Pages
392
Language
English
Published
2014-06-06
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Christopher R. Friedrichs

Description

A pioneering text which covers the urban society of early modern Europe as a whole. Challenges the usual emphasis on regional diversity by stressing the extent to which cities across Europe shared a common urban civilization whose major features remained remarkably constant throughout the period. After outlining the physical, political, religious, economic and demographic parameters of urban life, the author vividly depicts the everyday routines of city life and shows how pitifully vulnerable city-dwellers were to disasters, epidemics, warfare and internal strife.

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