As transfer points between different economic and cultural zones, cities are crucial to shaping processes of cultural exchange. Urban culture embraces cultural traits borrowed or imported from afar and those of local neighbourhoods, professions and social groups, yet it also offer possibilities for the survival and reinforcement of minority identities. This volume compares and contrasts the characteristics and patterns of change in the spaces, sites and buildings which expressed and shaped inter-cultural relationships within the cities of early modern Europe, expecially in their ethnic, religious and international dimensions. A central theme is the role of foreigners and the spaces and buildings associated with them, from ghettos, churches and hospitals to colleges, inns and markets. Individual studies include Greeks in Italian cities and London; the ‘Cities of Jews’ in Italy and the place of ghettos in the European imagination; and the contributions of foreign merchants to the growth of Amsterdam as a commercial metropolis.

Cities and Cultural Exchange in Europe, 1400-1700

CALABI, DONATELLA MARIA SERENA
2007-01-01

Abstract

As transfer points between different economic and cultural zones, cities are crucial to shaping processes of cultural exchange. Urban culture embraces cultural traits borrowed or imported from afar and those of local neighbourhoods, professions and social groups, yet it also offer possibilities for the survival and reinforcement of minority identities. This volume compares and contrasts the characteristics and patterns of change in the spaces, sites and buildings which expressed and shaped inter-cultural relationships within the cities of early modern Europe, expecially in their ethnic, religious and international dimensions. A central theme is the role of foreigners and the spaces and buildings associated with them, from ghettos, churches and hospitals to colleges, inns and markets. Individual studies include Greeks in Italian cities and London; the ‘Cities of Jews’ in Italy and the place of ghettos in the European imagination; and the contributions of foreign merchants to the growth of Amsterdam as a commercial metropolis.
2007
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