Discourses on Urban Order

Collana: Mondi Mediterranei, 15

Pagine: 271

Lingua: English

Pubblicato: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-43-1

Abstract: this collection of eleven studies on Discourses on the Peculiarities of
Urban Order concludes the four-year programme on Urban Order initiated
in 2021 by the International Commission for the History of Towns (ICHT).
It contains contributions by scholars from various European countries,
from the Middle Ages to the contemporary age as well as covering a
broad geographical area stretching from southern Italy to Norway. The
various aspects of the broad theme of Urban Order are dealt with by
concentrating on four sub-topics adopted by the ICHT: Protagonists of
Urban Order (2021), Crisis in Urban Order (2022), Mediating Urban Order
(2023) and Discourses on the Peculiarities of Urban Order (2024).
This volume contains contributions by scholars from various European
countries covering a broad geographical area stretching from southern
Italy to Norway. It investigates the various discourses of Urban Order and
their tangible effects on city’s space, culture, and material environment
from the Middle Ages to the contemporary age.

Sommario

Francesco Panarelli, Rosa Smurra, Introduction

Francesco Panarelli, Francesca Sogliani, The medieval origins of the city of Matera

Irena Benyovsky Latin, Discourses of urban order in the transformation of Dubrovnik’s suburbs into a city centre during the Venetian rule

Rosa Smurra, “...ipsum studium perpetuo in civitate Bononie ut thesaurum pretiosissimum conservare”. The relationship between the urban order and the university in Bologna (12-15thcenturies)

Roman Czaja, The political order of the cities of Könisgberg. A contribution to the discourse on the specificity of the urban political order in Eastern Central Europe at the turn of the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Period

Jana Vojtíšková, The Town Law of the Kingdom of Bohemia from 1579 as a significant stabilising element of urban order in early modern Bohemia

Olga Kozubska, Quoniam anima civitatis sit ordo... Discourse of urban prder in Kamianets Podilskyi during the 18th century

Remigijus Civinskas, Responses of Lithuanian urban élites to Russian imperial reforms (1795-1863)

Steinar Aas, Miriam Tveit, Urban history in Norwegian historiography: Discourses of urban order

Gilles Genot, Linguistic diversity, but no threat to urban order: the city of Luxembourg (1862-1984)

Mariavaleria Mininni, Matera, an urban story still to be told

Martina Stercken, Urban order. Closing remarks