Innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern European cities /
Davids, C. A.,1952-editor.
Munck, Bert De,1967-editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern European cities : 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 fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Francesco Ammannati -- New products and technological innovation in the silk industry of Vicenza in the fifteenth and sixteenth 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 sixteenth and eighteenth centuries / Alberto Grandi -- Textiles manufacturing, product innovations and transfers of technology in Padua and Venice between the sixteenth and eighteenth 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, 1450-1800 / Karel Davids and Bert de Munck -- 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 and the tension between artistic and artisanal training in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Dries Lyna -- Innovation in the capital city : central policies, markets and migrant skills in Neapolitan ceramic manufacturing in the eighteenth century / Alida Clemente -- Innovations, growth and mobility in the secondary sector of Trieste in the eighteenth century / Daniele Andreozzi.
City and town life
Urbanization
Technological innovations
Technological innovations
Guilds
Guilds