Knowledge and the early modern city : a history of entanglements / edited by Bert De Munck, Antonella Romano

"Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in a period when the nature and conception of both was drastically transformed. Providing the ideal starting point for those seeking to understand the role of urban institutions, actors and spaces in the production of knowledge and the development of the so-called 'modern' knowledge society, this is the perfect resource for students and scholars of early modern history and knowledge"-- Provided by publisher.

Knowledge and the early modern city : an introduction / Bert De Munck & Antonella Romano -- The theatrum as an urban site of knowledge in the Low Countries, c. 1560-1620 / Anne-Laure Van Bruaene -- Artisanal "histories" in early modern Nuremberg / Hannah Murphy -- Boatmen, Druids and Parisii in Lutetia : archaeologising Parisian society in eighteenth-century civic epistemology / Stéphane Van Damme -- Stench and the city : urban odours and technological innovation in early modern Leiden and Batavia / Marius Buning -- Cities, long-distance corporations and open air sciences : Antwerp, Amsterdam and Leiden in the early modern period / Karel Davids -- Technology transfer, ship design and urban policy in the age of Nicolaes Witsen / Daniel Margócsy -- André de Avelar and the city of Coimbra : spaces of knowledge and belief during the early modern Iberian Union / Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi -- Roman urbans epistemologies : global space and universal time in the rebuilding of a sixteenth-century city / Elisa Andretta & Antonella Romano -- The library, the city, the empire : de-provincialising Vienna in the early seventeenth century / Paola Molino.