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Cities in late medieval Europe

The Promise and the Curse of Modernity

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ID8044288
AuthorsMarc Boone (0000-0001-5326-2969, Ghent University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume39
Issue2
Pages329-349
Publication date2012-03-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0963-9268 • E-ISSN: 1469-8706
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0963926812000089
OpenAlexW2158952026
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited40

This article examines how modern historiography has developed quite differentiated views on the way medieval cities have given expression to renewal and to creativity. ‘National’ traditions have played a highly influential role in modifying the general views articulated in the major syntheses produced by scholars such as Max Weber and Henri Pirenne at the beginning of the twentieth century. An almost jubilant way of looking at the city as the hotbed of modernity gave room, in the decades after the Great War, to pessimism and a negative view on urbanity, before a more nuanced and positive view has been re-established after World War II and in the course of recent paradigmatic changes

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Creativity · Curse · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Expression (computer science · First world war · Historiography · Modernity · Pessimism · Political science · Sociology · Urbanity · Anthropology · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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Citation span2018 - 2025 (8)
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