Cities and Solidarities

Justin Colson is Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Essex. Arie van Steensel is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Groningen.

Contents

List of figures and tables

Preface

List of contributors






Cities and Solidarities. Urban Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Justin Colson and Arie van Steensel




Making the citizen, building the citizenry. Family and citizenship in fifteenth-century Barcelona
Carolina Obradors-Suazo




Gladman’s procession and communal identity in Norwich, 1425-1452
Derek M. Crosby




Mapping urban communities. A comparative topography of neighbourhoods in Bologna and Strasbourg in the late Middle Ages
Colin Arnaud




Conflict, community, and the law. Guarantors and social networks in dispute resolution in early modern Saxony
John Jordan




The poor of medieval Zagreb between solidarity, marginalisation and integration
Suzana Miljan and Bruno Škreblin




Poor boxes, guild ethic and urban community building in Brabant, c. 1250-1600
Hadewijch Masure




Who’s who in late medieval Brussels?
Bram Vannieuwenhuyze




A cursus for craftsmen? Career-cycles of the Worsted Weavers of late-medieval Norwich
Dana Durkee




Wage labour, wealth, and the power of a database. Unlocking communities of work outside urban guilds in Newcastle upon Tyne
Andy Burn




Urban communities and their burghers in the Kingdom of Hungary (1750-1850). The possibilities databases offer for historical analysis
Árpád Tóth, Gábor Czoch and István Németh




Speech and sociability. The regulation of language in the livery companies of early modern London
Jennifer Bishop




The physician’s marzipan. Communities at their intersections in Basel around 1600
Sarah-Maria Schober




‘Scientific’ instruments and networks of craft and commerce in early modern London

Alexi Baker

Index