Monthly Archive: November 2021
Diversity is one of the distinctive features of urbanity as we define it in our research group. The plural character of urban life acts as a stimulating force enabling large-scale endeavours and remarkable achievements…
It is not always easy to find “urbanity” in early modern sources. Many times, historians have to reconstruct what an author considered to be features of urbanity, by reading carefully and between the lines. This is especially the case because words, such as “urbanity” or “rurality” do not feature in these sources, instead problems and benefits of living in an “urban setting” may be explored by early modern authors…