Parish Studies and the Debates on Religious Life in the Low Countries (Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period)

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Michal Bauwens
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Parish Studies

Markets for Land, Labor, and Capital in Northern Italy and the Low Countries, Twelfth to Seventeenth Centuries

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bas J. P. van Bavel
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
North Central ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
Factor Markets

Comparative analysis of the markets for land, labor, and capital in north-central Italy and the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period reveals that urbanization in itself was not the crucial variable in the quality and effect of developing factor markets. More important was the counterweight offered in this process by territorial lords and rural interests to the influence of urban elites. Without this counterweight, urban elites could exploit factor markets to their own ends.

Die geschriebene Stadt

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Teresa Schröder-Stapper
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The City

The Written City. Inscriptions as Media of Urban Knowledge of Space and Time The article investigates the function of urban inscriptions as media of knowledge about space and time at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period in the city of Braunschweig. The article starts with the insight that inscriptions in stone or wood on buildings or monuments not only convey knowledge about space and time but at the same time play an essential role in the construction of space and time in the city by the practice of inscribing. The analysis focuses on the steadily deteriorating relationship between the city of Braunschweig and its city lord, the Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, and its material manifestation in building and monument inscriptions. The contribution shows that in the course of the escalating conflict over autonomy, a change in epigraphic habit took placed that aimed at claiming both urban space and its history exclusively on behalf of the city as an expression of its autonomy.

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