This volume examines the politics of space in the most densely urbanized areas of Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. It ranges from Italy to the Parisian region and then to the greater Low Countries, home of Europe’s most powerful commercial cities of the period. Hardly inert sites on which political action took place, the spaces these authors investigate conferred power on those who possessed them. At the same time they were themselves transformed by the struggles, thus acquiring new powers that invited future contest. Thus implicitly responding to Georges Lefebvre’s claim that space is “produced”, the authors ask how space was perceived and used in everyday life, giving specific spaces cultural, social, and political coherence (“le perçu”); how it was represented or theorized, thus encoded in symbols, maps and laws (“le conçu”); and how it was lived, in effect the result of the dialectical relation between the perceived and the represented (“le vécu”).
Table des matières :
Marc Boone et Martha C. Howell – Introduction
Marco Vencato – Space Politics and Images of Power. The Urban Renewal of Naples During the Renaissance
Chloé Deligne – Powers over Space, Spaces of Powers. The Constitution of Town Squares in the Cities of the Low Countries (12th – 14th Century)
Ellen Wurtzel – City Limits and State Formation: Territorial Jurisdiction in Late Medieval and Early Modern Lille
Diane Chamboduc de Saint Pulgent – L’espace économique comme lieu de reconstruction politique à Lucques à la fin du XIVe siècle
Pierre-Henri Guittonneau – Petites villes et espace fluvial: pratiques sociales et conflits d’usage autour de Paris au XVe siècle
Marc Boone – From Cuckoo’s Egg to “Sedem Tyranni”. The Princely Citadels in the Cities of the Low Countries, or the City’s Spatial Integrity Hijacked (15th – Early 16th Centuries)
Jean-Baptiste Delzant – Instaurator et fundator : édification de la seigneurie urbaine et présence monumentale de la commune (Italie centrale, fin du Moyen Âge)
Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan – La proximité en négatif : pratiques de stigmatisation et espaces du quotidien dans l’Italie de la Renaissance
Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin – The Space of Punishments: Reflections on the Expression and Perception of Judgment and Punishment in the Cities of the Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages
Henk Van Nierop – Sacred Space Contested: Amsterdam in the Age of the Reformation
Denis Crouzet – Espace d’ici-bas et espace de l’Au-delà : La violence catholique à la recherche de la cité de Dieu (France, 1560-1598)
Claire Billen – La construction d’une centralité : Bruxelles dans le duché de Brabant au bas Moyen Âge
Peter Arnade – The City in a World of Cities: Antwerp and the Civitates Orbis Terrarum
Informations pratiques :
Marc Boone et Martha C. Howell (éd.), The Power of Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013 (Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), 30). VI+215 p., 23 b/w ill., 178 x 254 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-54784-8. Prix : 77,00 euros.
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