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Antwerp in the Renaissance, edited by Bruno Blondé & Jeroen Puttevils

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Antwerp in the Renaissance

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edited by Bruno Blondé & Jeroen Puttevils

SEUH, Studies in European urban history 1100-1800, volume 49

This book engages with Antwerp in the Renaissance. Bringing together several specialists of sixteenth-century Antwerp, it offers new research results and fresh perspectives on the economic, cultural and social history of the metropolis in the sixteenth century. Recurrent themes are the creative ways in which the Italian renaissance was translated in the Antwerp context. Imperfect imitation often resulted from the specific social context in which the renaissance was translated: Antwerp was a metropolis marked by a strong commercial ideology, a high level affluence and social inequality, but also by the presence of large and strong middling layers, which contributed to the city's 'bourgeois character. The growth of the Antwerp market was remarkable: in no time the city gained metropolitan status. This book does a good job in showing how quite a few of the Antwerp 'achievements' did result from the absence of 'existing structures' and 'examples'. Moreover, the city and its culture were given shape by the many frictions, and uncertainties that came along with rapid urban growth and religious turmoil. --, Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note:, Antwerp in the Renaissance, Jeroen Puttevils, Sixteenth-Century Antwerp, a Hyper-Market for All? The Case of Low Countries Merchants, Jeroen Puttevils, Antwerp Commercial Law in the Sixteenth Century: A Product of the Renaissance? The Legal Facilitating, Appropriating and Improving of Mercantile Practices, Dave De Ruysscher, Brotherhood of Artisans. The Disappearance of Confraternal Friendship and the Ideal of Equality in the Long Sixteenth Century, Bert De Munck, `And Thus the Brethren Shall Meet All Together'. Active Participation in Antwerp Confraternities, c. 1375 -- 1650, Hadewijch Masure, A Renaissance Republic? Antwerp's urban militia, "the military Renaissance" and structural changes in warfare, c. 1566-c. 1621, Erik Swart, A Counterfeit Community. Rederijkers, Festive Culture and Print in Renaissance Antwerp, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Literary Renaissance in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp?, Herman Pleij, Building the Metropolis, Petra Maclot, The City Portrayed. Patterns of Continuity and Change in the Antwerp Renaissance City View, Jelle De Rock, Trial and error. Antwerp Renaissance art, Koenraad Jonckheere