Urban History Writing in Northwest Europe. (15th-16th centuries)

Par : Bram Caers, Lisa Demets, Tineke Van gassen
  • Nombre de pages231
  • FormatGrand Format
  • PrésentationRelié
  • Poids0.66 kg
  • Dimensions18,5 cm × 26,1 cm × 1,8 cm
  • ISBN978-2-503-58376-1
  • EAN9782503583761
  • Date de parution30/09/2019
  • CollectionStudies in European Urban Hist
  • ÉditeurBrepols

Résumé

This volume aims at taking the first steps towards a revaluation of urban historiography in Northwest Europe, including rather than excluding texts that do not fit common definitions. It confronts examples from the Low Countries to well-studied cases abroad, in order to develop new approaches to urban historiography in general. In the authors' view, there are no fixed textual formats, social or political categories, or material forms that exclusively define "the urban chronicle".
Urban historiography in pre-modern Western Europe came in many guises, from the dry and modest historical notes in a guild register, to the elaborate heraldic images in a luxury manuscript made on commission for a patrician family, to the legally founded political narrative of a professional scribe in an official town chronicle. The contributions in this volume attest to the diversity of the "genre" and look more closely at these texts from a broader, comparative perspective, unrestrained by typologies and genre definitions.
It is mainly because of these hybrid guises, that many examples of urban historiography from the Low Countries for instance succeeded in going unnoticed for aconsiderable amount of time.
BRAM CAERS is a literary historian of the late medieval and early modern period. He finished his PhD on manuscript variation in urban historiography in the city of Mechelen (1500-1650) at the University of Antwerp in 2015. He now works as a postdoctoral research fellow (NWO-veni) at the University of Leiden, studying the literary image of the Dutch Revolt in vernacular manuscript material in the Southern Low Countries (1585-1621), addressing questions of subversive literature and censorship.
He has taught courses on medieval and early modern Dutch literature in the universities of Antwerp, Utrecht, and Leuven. LISA DEMETS studied history at Ghent University and finished her PhD in 2019. Her doctoral research dealt with the late medieval Chronicles of Flanders, and in particular the Middle Dutch manuscripts of the "Excellente Cronike van Vlaenderen". She now works as a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University.
Her main research interests are urban history, gender history, medieval history writing, and the political and cultural history of the medieval Low Countries. TINEKE VAN GASSEN studied history at Ghent University and finished her PhD research in 2017. Her doctoral research project was entitled : "The documentary memory of a medieval city : the development and signification of the Ghent city archives".
Her research interests are urban history, the history of the craft guilds, medieval diplomatics and the political history of late medieval Ghent.