City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100-1600

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Table of contents
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List of contributors
Acknowledgments
1 City and Society in the Low Countries: Urbanisation and Urban Historiography
	Geographical and Chronological Markers
	Thematic Axes
2 Economic Vitality: Urbanisation, Regional Complementarity and European Interaction
	Durability and Change: The Specific Development of Urban Networks in the Low Countries
	Regional Dynamics: Town and Country
	Crossroads of Northern Europe? Trade and Transport in the Late Middle Ages and the Long Sixteenth Century
	From Unfettered Capitalism to Regulated Labour Market? Changes in the Supply Sector...
	Conclusions
3 Living Together in the City: Social Relationships Between Norm and Practice
	Introduction
	The Ideal of the Commune
	Merchants and Landowners: The Powers That Be
	The Rise of Corporate Middling Groups
	An Urban Nobility?
	Guild, Clan and Nuclear Family
	The Horsemen of the Apocalypse Gallop from Crisis to Crisis
	Economic Conversion and the Triumph of the Urban Middling Groups
	A ‘Golden Age’ for the Wage-Labourer … or for the Urban Middling Groups?
	Slipping Through the Net? Poverty and Discipline
4 ‘The Common Good’: Governance, Discipline and Political Culture
	The Question of Discipline: Paradigms and Propositions
	Textualisation and Urban Identity
	Norms and Rules: The City as a Regulatory Body
	Discipline in Practice: Conflict Management and Criminalisation
	The Struggle for Power in the City
	Sword, Flag and Pen: Resistance in the City
	Political Morality as a Weapon and an Ideology
	Conclusion
5 Civic Religion: Community, Identity and Religious Transformation
	Civic Religion?
	Urbanisation and Ecclesiastical Structures
	The ‘Monasticisation’ of the City
	Lay Piety in Town
	Collective Religious Repertoires
	Religious Transformations
	Epilogue
6 Urban Space: Infrastructure, Technology and Power
	More Than Just Bricks and Mortar: A History of Infrastructure and Facilities
	The Construction of an Urban Site
	The Development of Centres’ Roles
	Demarcating Boundaries
	Caritas as the Key Component of Civic Unity
	Conclusion
7 At Home in the City: The Dynamics of Material Culture
	Residential Styles and Cultures
	At Home in the City
	Innovations in Products and Processes
	Design
	Social Boundaries
	Savoir Vivre
	Material Culture and the City
8 Education and Knowledge: Theory and Practice in an Urban Context
	Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
	Teaching and Discipline
	Vocational Education: Learning on the Shop Floor and the Role of Craft Guilds
	Handbooks and ‘Artes-Literature’
	The ‘Latin’ School: A Link Between Elementary and Higher Education
	Higher Education
	Interactions between Court, University and Town
	Conclusion
9 Epilogue: The Legacy of the Medieval City in the Low Countries
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