As transfer points between different economic and cultural zones, cities are crucial to shaping processes of cultural exchange. Urban culture embraces cultural traits borrowed or imported from afar and those of local neighbourhoods, professions and social groups, yet it also offers possibilities for the survival of minority identities. This volume compares the characteristics and patterns of change in the spaces, sites and building, which expressed and shaped inter-cultural relationships within the cities of early modern Europe, especially in their ethnic, religious and international dimensions. A central theme is the role of foreigners and the spaces and buildings associated with them from ghettos, churches and hospitals to colleges, inns and markets. Individual studies include Greeks in Italian cities and London; the 'Cities of Jews' in Italy and the place of ghettos in the European imagination; and the contributions of foreign merchants to the growth of Amsterdam as a commercial metropolis.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9781107412798
eBay Product ID (ePID)
138662588
Product Key Features
Author
William Monter
Publication Name
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Anthropology, History
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
454 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
226mm
Item Width
152mm
Volume
Volume 2
Item Weight
600g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
William Monter
Series Title
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe 4 Volume Paperback Set
Editor
Donatella Calabi, Stephen Turk Christensen
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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