Guilds, towns, and cultural transmission in the north, 1300 - 1500

Titel: Guilds, towns, and cultural transmission in the north, 1300 - 1500 / Lars Bisgaard; Lars Boje Mortensen; Tom Pettitt [eds.]
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Veröffentlicht: Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark, 2013
Umfang: 301 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten ; 23 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 8776745570 ; 9788776745578
Lokale Klassifikation: 12 7 D ; 12 13 M ; 47 8 R 471 ; 47 8 R 531 ; 47 13 K

The economic and political roles of towns in the Nordic late Middle Ages -- with LÃ"beck as the major hub in an extensive network -- have long been recognised and studied: be it in histories of nations, the Hanse, or individual towns. In such accounts, however, the regional web of urban culture is not always given its due. And as most manifestations of urban culture were anchored in the social and business corporations generally designated as guilds, these provide the natural point of departure for an attempt to appreciate this dynamic segment of northern Europe's cultural history.