Imagining Early Modern London

Angebote / Angebote:

The 120 years that separate the first publication of John Stow’, s famous Survey of London in 1598 from John Strype’, s enormous new edition of the same work in 1720 witnessed London’, s transformation into a sprawling augustan metropolis, very different from the compact medieval city so lovingly charted in the pages of Stow. Imagining Early Modern London takes Stow’, s classic account of the Elizabethan city as a starting point for an examination of how generations of very different Londoners - men and women, antiquaries, merchants, skilled craftsmen, labourers and beggars - experienced and understood the dramatically changing city. A series of interdisciplinary essays explore the ways in which Londoners interpreted and memorialized their past: how individuals located themselves mentally, socially and geographically within the city, and how far the capital’, s growth was believed to have a moral influence upon its inhabitants.

Folgt in ca. 10 Arbeitstagen