Alexander Cowan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Cowan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowan |
| SIGNATURE | COWAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The City and the Senses
This collection of studies, published in the Ashgate Historical Urban Studies series, edited by Richard Rodger and Jean-Luc Pinol, examines ‘urban experience’ though the medium of the five senses: smell, hearing, vision, touch and taste. It draws on a broad range of disciplines, including history, art history, literary criticism, cultural geography and socio-linguistics and brings together young and established scholars from the UK, Ireland and t…
City and the Senses
Seeing is Believing
This article provides an analysis of the social functions of the balcony in early modern Venice using evidence from architecture, art history, theatre history and the records of two magistracies, one secular, the other ecclesiastical. It argues that the liminal position of balconies between the public and the private both exposed those present on them to the public gaze and potentially as subjects of gossip, and enabled them to see and hear what …
Information and Communication in Venice
Parliaments, Estates and Representation
Gossip and Street Culture in Early Modern Venice
This is a study of the spatial, social and cultural context of gossip in early modern Venice based on oral testimony to the magistracy of the Avogaria di Comun, and centering on the making of marriages. Recent studies in sociology and anthropology suggest that gossip was part of a complex system of social relationships, particularly within an urban context. Far from being an exclusively female practice, both men and women engaged in gossip, and t…
Studies in European urban history, 3
Cultural traffic in Lübeck and Danzig in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
In this examination of patterns of cultural traffic in Lübeck and Danzig in the 16th and 17th centuries it is argued that while Danzig was strongly influenced by Dutch commercial contacts and exercised a very strong cultural influence on its Polish hinterland, Lübeck was open to a more diffuse range of external cultural influences, and competed as a centre of culture with its neighbours. Two assumptions are tested here: that a relationship existe…
La Popolazione nel Dogado Veneto nei Secoli XVII e XVIII
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Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access ALEXANDER COWAN ALEXANDER COWAN Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 427, April 1993, Pages 451–452, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.427.451 Published: 01 April 1993
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Shorter Notices Get access ALEXANDER COWAN ALEXANDER COWAN Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXXI, October 1991, Pages 1068-b–1069, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXXI.1068-b Published: 01 October 1991
Urban Elites in Early Modern Europe
Journal Article Urban Elites in Early Modern Europe: an Endangered Species? Get access Alexander Cowan Alexander Cowan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 64, Issue 154, June 1991, Pages 121–137, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1991.tb01789.x Published: 12 October 2007
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Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access ALEXANDER COWAN ALEXANDER COWAN Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIV, Issue CCCCXII, July 1989, Pages 734–736, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIV.CCCCXII.734 Published: 01 July 1989
Tradesmen and Traders
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe
A Venetian Family and Its Fortune, 1500-1900
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe
Tradesmen and Traders
Seeing is Believing
This article provides an analysis of the social functions of the balcony in early modern Venice using evidence from architecture, art history, theatre history and the records of two magistracies, one secular, the other ecclesiastical. It argues that the liminal position of balconies between the public and the private both exposed those present on them to the public gaze and potentially as subjects of gossip, and enabled them to see and hear what …
Gossip and Street Culture in Early Modern Venice
This is a study of the spatial, social and cultural context of gossip in early modern Venice based on oral testimony to the magistracy of the Avogaria di Comun, and centering on the making of marriages. Recent studies in sociology and anthropology suggest that gossip was part of a complex system of social relationships, particularly within an urban context. Far from being an exclusively female practice, both men and women engaged in gossip, and t…
A Venetian Family and Its Fortune, 1500-1900
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe
Tradesmen and Traders
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access ALEXANDER COWAN ALEXANDER COWAN Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIV, Issue CCCCXII, July 1989, Pages 734–736, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIV.CCCCXII.734 Published: 01 July 1989
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access ALEXANDER COWAN ALEXANDER COWAN Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXXI, October 1991, Pages 1068-b–1069, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXXI.1068-b Published: 01 October 1991
Urban Elites in Early Modern Europe
Journal Article Urban Elites in Early Modern Europe: an Endangered Species? Get access Alexander Cowan Alexander Cowan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 64, Issue 154, June 1991, Pages 121–137, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1991.tb01789.x Published: 12 October 2007
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access ALEXANDER COWAN ALEXANDER COWAN Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 427, April 1993, Pages 451–452, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.427.451 Published: 01 April 1993
Shorter Notices
La Popolazione nel Dogado Veneto nei Secoli XVII e XVIII
Cultural traffic in Lübeck and Danzig in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
In this examination of patterns of cultural traffic in Lübeck and Danzig in the 16th and 17th centuries it is argued that while Danzig was strongly influenced by Dutch commercial contacts and exercised a very strong cultural influence on its Polish hinterland, Lübeck was open to a more diffuse range of external cultural influences, and competed as a centre of culture with its neighbours. Two assumptions are tested here: that a relationship existe…
Studies in European urban history, 3
Gossip and Street Culture in Early Modern Venice
This is a study of the spatial, social and cultural context of gossip in early modern Venice based on oral testimony to the magistracy of the Avogaria di Comun, and centering on the making of marriages. Recent studies in sociology and anthropology suggest that gossip was part of a complex system of social relationships, particularly within an urban context. Far from being an exclusively female practice, both men and women engaged in gossip, and t…
Information and Communication in Venice
Parliaments, Estates and Representation
Seeing is Believing
This article provides an analysis of the social functions of the balcony in early modern Venice using evidence from architecture, art history, theatre history and the records of two magistracies, one secular, the other ecclesiastical. It argues that the liminal position of balconies between the public and the private both exposed those present on them to the public gaze and potentially as subjects of gossip, and enabled them to see and hear what …
The City and the Senses
This collection of studies, published in the Ashgate Historical Urban Studies series, edited by Richard Rodger and Jean-Luc Pinol, examines ‘urban experience’ though the medium of the five senses: smell, hearing, vision, touch and taste. It draws on a broad range of disciplines, including history, art history, literary criticism, cultural geography and socio-linguistics and brings together young and established scholars from the UK, Ireland and t…
City and the Senses
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