Economic Vitality: Urbanisation, Regional Complementarity and European Interaction

The main question of this special issue is how international traders were able to manage their activities and conflicts successfully when they regularly had to cross legal boundaries and were operating in different and overlapping jurisdictions in northern Europe in the period c. 1350–1600. The contributions in this issue approach this central question from a range of perspectives. This introduction identifies these perspectives, as well as common themes and findings, and indicates why it is particularly pertinent to discuss the topic of crossing legal boundaries in the context of urban history. It also discusses relevant historiographical debates and key concepts of urban jurisdiction and jurisdictional boundaries in late medieval northern European towns.

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The Long History of Early Medieval Urbanism on the Island of Walcheren (Netherlands): Towards a Biography of Urban Continuity

Deckers¹

2022

Journal of Urban Archaeology

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The small island of Walcheren in the estuary of the river Scheldt is home to a number of important early medi eval settlements. Building on the results of new fieldwork, this paper discusses their urban character and challenges the conventional narrative of disjointed stages rooted in settlement typo logy. It proposes a contextualized biographical approach in order to reconstruct a more encompassing view of urban continuities and discontinuities. In doing so, it highlights the long persistence of urbanism on the island, across conjunctural shifts and low points, and relates the observed patterns of change to developments locally and more broadly, in the Low Countries and beyond.

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Economic Vitality: Urbanisation, Regional Complementarity and European Interaction

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The Long History of Early Medieval Urbanism on the Island of Walcheren (Netherlands): Towards a Biography of Urban Continuity

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