Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities

by Bert de Munck and Karel Davids

Book Overview

Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century northwestern Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Why did cities rather than rural environments produce new artistic genres, new products and new techniques? How did pre-industrial cities evolve into centres of innovation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367879417
• ISBN13: 9780367879419
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"