Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities

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...

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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 and creativity? As the most urbanized regions of continental Europe in this period, Italy and the Low Countries provide a rich source of case studies, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate. They set out to examine the relationship between institutional arrangements and regulatory mechanisms such as citizenship and guild rules and innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern cities. They analyze whether, in what context and why regulation or deregulation influenced innovation and creativity, and what the impact was of long-term changes in the political and economic sphere.

Karel Davids is Chair of Economic and Social History in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Economics at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His publications in English include Religion, Technology, and the Great and Little Divergences: China and Europe Compared c.700-1800 (2013); The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership. Technology, Economy and Cultu...

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Karel Davids is Chair of Economic and Social History in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Economics at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His publications in English include Religion, Technology, and the Great and Little Divergences: China and Europe Compared c.700-1800 (2013); The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership. Technology, Economy and Culture in the Dutch Republic, 1350-1800 (2008); and numerous articles on technological, economic and maritime history. Bert De Munck is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has published on urban history, craft guilds and apprenticeship, vocational training and the circulation of knowledge, and the ’repertoires of evaluation’ regarding skills and products. His publications include Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities (2012) (co-edited with Anne Winter); Technologies of Learning. Apprenticeship in Antwerp from the 15th Century to the End of the Ancien Régime (2007); and Learning on the Shop Floor. Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship (2007) (co-edited with Hugo Soly and Steven L. Kaplan).

Preface
Innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern European cities: an introduction, Karel Davids and Bert De Munck
The cities of glass: privileges and innovations in early modern Europe, Corine Maitte
Craft guild legislation and woollen production: the Florentine Arte della Lana in the 15th and 16th centuries, Francesco Ammannati
New products and technological innovation in the silk industry of Vicenza in the 15th and 16th centuries, Edoardo Demo
To kill two birds with one stone: keeping immigrants in by granting free burghership in early modern Antwerp, Jan de Meester
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Preface
Innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern European cities: an introduction, Karel Davids and Bert De Munck
The cities of glass: privileges and innovations in early modern Europe, Corine Maitte
Craft guild legislation and woollen production: the Florentine Arte della Lana in the 15th and 16th centuries, Francesco Ammannati
New products and technological innovation in the silk industry of Vicenza in the 15th and 16th centuries, Edoardo Demo
To kill two birds with one stone: keeping immigrants in by granting free burghership in early modern Antwerp, Jan de Meester
The secret perfume: technology and the organization of soap production in northern Italy between the 16th and 18th centuries, Alberto Grandi
Textiles manufacturing, product innovations and transfers of technology in Padua and Venice between the 16th and 18th centuries, Andrea Caracausi
The spatial side of innovation: the local organization of cultural production in the Dutch republic, 1580-1800, Claartje Rasterhoff
Beyond exclusivism: entrance fees for guilds in the early modern Low Countries, c. 1450-1800, Bert De Munck and Karel Davids with the collaboration of Ellen Burm
The coopers’ guilds in Holland, c. 1650-1720: a market logic?, Janneke Tump
The early modern Antwerp coopers’ guild: from a contract-enforcing organization to an empty box?, Raoul De Kerf
The paradox of the Antwerp rose: symbol of decline or token of craftsmanship?, Annelies De Bie
Harbouring urban creativity: the Antwerp Art Academy in the tension between artistic and artisanal training in the late 17th and 18th centuries, Dries Lyna
Innovation in the capital city: central policies, markets and migrant skills in Neapolitan ceramic manufacturing in the 18th century, Alida Clemente
Innovations, growth and mobility in the secondary sector of Trieste in the 18th century, Daniele Andreozzi
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