Antwerp in the Renaissance (Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800)) - Hardcover

Bruno Blonde

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2503588336 ISBN 13: 9782503588339

Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2020

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503588336
• ISBN 13: 9782503588339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 315
• Editor: Bruno Blonde, Jeroen Puttevils