Pub Date : 2025-01-23DOI: 10.1177/02656914241308038i
Mollie Arbuthnot
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Pub Date : 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1177/02656914241301623
Anne-Laure Van Bruaene
Among the most striking phenomena in the history of the Reformation in the Low Countries are the Protestant open-air sermons of the summer of 1566. These sermons, held in fields, woods, marshlands or other open spaces beyond the city limits, were attended by hundreds or even thousands of men and women from all social groups, eager for reform. This essay discusses the geographical proliferation, organization and characteristics of the field sermons, which can be seen as an early example of the spatial accommodation of religious division in early modern Europe. It also argues that these sermons had a profound impact on urban communities, because civic authorities were faced with the challenge of controlling the flow of people and information, especially at the city gates. Moreover, field sermons had an impact on urban space at large, as sermon-goers claimed their place in town through a range of spontaneous and ritualized acts that reinforced their goal of obtaining a site of worship within the city walls.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1177/02656914241301621
B. Ann Tlusty
This paper will focus on sixteenth-century weaver and wedding singer Jonas Losch of Augsburg as a focal point for examining craftsmen in Germany who moonlighted as singers, offering both formal and informal entertainment in the streets, pubs, and other informal spaces of early modern German towns. Because songs were one of the few ways that artisans of lower status were able to make their voices heard, their songs were often political, socially critical, or even subversive, although many of these artisan singers also performed at weddings or in other non-political venues. In a process recognizable to a modern audience, sharing songs of protest provided a vehicle for building and solidifying group political identity and politicizing the spaces in which they were performed. The setting of political songs to familiar tunes associated with Protestant or Catholic identity increased the potential for eliciting emotional reactions and inflaming passions among listeners, which could lead to conflict. Because sound also penetrated windows, walls, and thresholds, songs could temporarily redefine spatial boundaries. The networks of artisan singers who wrote, copied, and shared these songs created political space for a lively public sphere of opinion among the artisan classes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1177/02656914241301925
Giancarlo Casale, Matteo Calcagni
Using a recently discovered private merchant archive (the Archivio Adami-Lami in Florence, Italy), this article reconstructs the Acre Consul Controversy, a diplomatic dispute over the appointment of a Tuscan merchant, Francesco Adami, as the first English vice-consul of the Ottoman port of Acre. Through a micro-spatial case study, documenting the emerging rivalry between European ‘nations’ and their consular representatives in an Ottoman port city, this article contributes to understanding the power of space in early modern Mediterranean politics. First, it analyses the interplay between the more institutionalized and corporate political practices typical of early modern Europe (embodied in the office of the ‘national’ consulate) and the more informal and flexible political practices of the Ottoman empire. Second, it situates key elements of this diplomatic controversy within a particular, clearly delineated semi-public space: Acre's Khan al-Ifrānj, a residential warehouse exclusively used by European merchants.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1177/02656914241303381
Bianca de Divitiis
This article will consider the polycentric topography of politics in the centres of southern Italy between the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. The institutional fluidity which characterized the universitates of the Kingdom of Naples determined the use of different types of ‘informal’ spaces by the municipal bodies which administered the cities via groups of local elites and royal officials. These included wide, hybrid spaces, such as city squares and markets, smaller structured spaces such as the open loggias and archways, as well as shops and taverns. Within a context of ‘spatial fluidity’ which implied the parallel use and interchange of such spaces, the article will look to the use of spolia, namely ancient sculptures and inscriptions, and of new all’antica artistic and architectural features to confer administrative and juridical authority to spaces that were intended to host multiple functions.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1177/02656914241301910
Antonio Castillo Gómez
Beyond the spheres of opinion built around the circles of power, political communication in the early modern age went through other channels accessible to a wider and more diverse public, which also included subaltern groups in that society. This article adopts a spatial and material approach to explore the role of squares and streets as channels for political discourse. While examining the significance of these spaces as a resonating box for political information, it also recognizes the importance of public engagement with other types of news and stories. Since one of the most emblematic places of public information in modern Spain was the mentidero, this study analyses its relevance as a public political space in the seventeenth century. The focus on Madrid is due to its status as the capital of the Hispanic monarchy and to the greater density of accounts about its mentideros, notably the one situated on the steps of the convent of San Felipe, albeit primarily derived from literary sources.
{"title":"Squares, Streets, and Mentideros: Political Communication in Public Space in Early Modern Spain","authors":"Antonio Castillo Gómez","doi":"10.1177/02656914241301910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914241301910","url":null,"abstract":"Beyond the spheres of opinion built around the circles of power, political communication in the early modern age went through other channels accessible to a wider and more diverse public, which also included subaltern groups in that society. This article adopts a spatial and material approach to explore the role of squares and streets as channels for political discourse. While examining the significance of these spaces as a resonating box for political information, it also recognizes the importance of public engagement with other types of news and stories. Since one of the most emblematic places of public information in modern Spain was the mentidero, this study analyses its relevance as a public political space in the seventeenth century. The focus on Madrid is due to its status as the capital of the Hispanic monarchy and to the greater density of accounts about its mentideros, notably the one situated on the steps of the convent of San Felipe, albeit primarily derived from literary sources.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1177/02656914241303352
Umberto Cecchinato
In early modern Europe, spontaneous festive activities such as gambling and other street entertainments were a prominent part of everyday urban life. This article analyses their impact on some of Venice's informal political spaces. Ludic gatherings disrupted the rhythms of everyday life and often provoked violent reactions from residents who complained of being denied access to these public spaces. These daily struggles have long gone unnoticed, but they provide an example of how residents conceived of the urban environment in which they lived and how they established a political relationship with the authorities. Historians usually associate the suppression of street entertainment with a process of moralization imposed from above, beginning in the sixteenth century. The article reinterprets this narrative, arguing that the authorities’ policy of controlling urban space found fertile ground in a section of the community and depended on it to be effective. It shows how the prohibition of public ludic activities emerged from the demands of resident communities, who repeatedly appealed to the authorities for action to defend their use of informal spaces. The authorities’ repression relied heavily on neighbourhood control, which in turn depended on political decisions: in fact, residents usually denounced undesirable individuals or those with no ties to the community.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1177/02656914241301624
Massimo Rospocher, Enrico Valseriati
{"title":"The Power of Space: Street Politics in Early Modern Europe (and Beyond): An Introduction","authors":"Massimo Rospocher, Enrico Valseriati","doi":"10.1177/02656914241301624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914241301624","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1177/02656914241287107d
Chelsea Sambells
{"title":"Book Review: Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing by Alex J. Kay","authors":"Chelsea Sambells","doi":"10.1177/02656914241287107d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914241287107d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142487660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1177/02656914241287107g
Morgan Golf-French
{"title":"Book Review: Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens by William Max Nelson","authors":"Morgan Golf-French","doi":"10.1177/02656914241287107g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914241287107g","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142487666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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