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Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities /

Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in Renaissance Italy and in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century north-western Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Contributors...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davids, C. A., 1952- (Editor ), Munck, Bert De, 1967- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1: Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities: an Introduction
  • 2: The Cities of Glass: Privileges and Innovations in Early Modern Europe
  • 3: Craft Guild Legislation and Woollen Production: the Florentine Arte della Lana
  • 4: New Products and Technological Innovation in the Silk Industry of Vicenza
  • 5: To Kill Two Birds with One Stone: Keeping Immigrants in by Granting Free Burghership in Early Modern Antwerp
  • 6: The Secret Perfume: Technology and the Organization of Soap Production in Northern Italy
  • 7: Textiles Manufacturing, Product Innovations and Transfers of Technology in Padua and Venice
  • 8: The Spatial Side of Innovation: the Local Organization of Cultural Production in the Dutch Republic
  • 9: Beyond Exclusivism: Entrance Fees for Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries
  • 10: The Coopers' Guilds in Holland, c. 1650-1720: a Market Logic?
  • 11: The Early Modern Antwerp Coopers' Guild: from a Contract-enforcing Organization to an Empty Box?
  • 12: The Paradox of the Antwerp Rose: Symbol of Decline or Token of Craftsmanship?
  • 13: Harbouring Urban Creativity: the Antwerp Art Academy in the Tension
  • 14: Innovation in the Capital City: Central Policies, Markets and Migrant Skills in Neapolitan Ceramic Manufacturing
  • 15: Innovations, Growth and Mobility in the Secondary Sector of Trieste.