Urban Life in the Middle Ages 1000–1450

Lilley, Keith

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“…This phenomenon is both economic and social in nature: the presence of a commercial infrastructure (portus, markets) attracting goods and people and providing income is very attractive to the landed and political elites, first the feudal lords, then the emergent urban rulers (Fleming 1993;Lilley 2002;Boone 1996). On the one hand, the future Dukes of Brabant originating from the neighboring county of Leuven will arrive in Brussels, on the other, several powerful seigniorial families and monasteries (in particular the important Nivelles abbey, already mentioned above) will also come from outside the Brussels area.…”

Section: Medieval Brussels: the Local Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Once the city as trading center is established, some other phenomena occur, among of which the most important are certainly changes in landownership and an increase in the price of land in and around the city, coupled with strong pressure to acquire it (Fleming 1993;Lilley 2002). This phenomenon is both economic and social in nature: the presence of a commercial infrastructure (portus, markets) attracting goods and people and providing income is very attractive to the landed and political elites, first the feudal lords, then the emergent urban rulers (Fleming 1993;Lilley 2002;Boone 1996).…”

Section: Medieval Brussels: the Local Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The cradle of the city: the environmental imprint of Brussels and its hinterland in the High Middle Ages

Charruadas

2011

Reg Environ Change

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As a popular assumption, the cities are considered to exert a major impact on their hinterland. In fact, little is known about this imprint on the earlier period. This paper will thus try to delineate as far as possible urban and rural contributions to the imprint by using a cause and effect analysis. The paper argues that the birth of second generation cities like Brussels is the result of a demographic and economic process occurring in the rural environment. Above all in a second phase, once the process of human concentration within the city initiated and the town became a market center and a consumer power, rural developments changed under the urban imprint: at that moment the city imposed a certain spatial structure on the rural system with intensive and high profitability cultures replacing extensive practices.

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Section: Medieval Brussels: the Local Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Medieval Brussels: the Local Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The cradle of the city: the environmental imprint of Brussels and its hinterland in the High Middle Ages

Charruadas

2011

Reg Environ Change

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“…One urban tradition particularly noted for the spatial segregation by occupation is medieval Europe (Lilley, 2002;Nicholas, 1997). As noted above, in Marseille there was a clear concentration of crafts by neighborhood, although few neighborhoods were home to only a single craft, and few crafts were limited to a single neighborhood (Smail, 2000).…”

Section: Social Clustering By Neighborhood and Districtmentioning

confidence: 99%

The archaeological study of neighborhoods and districts in ancient cities

Smith

2010

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

187

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“…It is this schema that was adopted and adapted subsequently through the Middle Ages, providing a conceptual link in the Christian mind between city and the cosmos. Some of the more explicit examples of this come from the twelfth century in particular, a time when European urban life was expanding rapidly (Lilley 2002), and a time too when the Platonic inheritance, with its emphasis on the relationship between the megacosmus and microcosmus , was reaching its influential height in Christian thought (see Gregory 1988).…”

Section: The Microcosmic City: Text and Imagementioning

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Cities of God? Medieval urban forms and their Christian symbolism

Lilley

2004

Trans Inst British Geog

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Situated in the context of recent geographical engagements with 'landscape', this paper combines 'morphological' and 'iconographic' landscape interpretations to examine how urban forms were perceived in late medieval Europe. To date, morphological studies have mapped the medieval city either by classifying urban layouts according to particular types, or by analysing plan forms of particular towns and cities to reveal their spatial evolution. This paper outlines a third way, an 'iconographic' approach, which shows how urban forms in the Middle Ages conveyed Christian symbolism. Three such 'mappings' explore this thesis: the first uses textual and visual representations which show that the city was understood as a scaled-down world -a microcosm -linking city and cosmos in the medieval mind; the second 'mapping' develops this theme further and suggests that urban landscapes were inscribed with symbolic form through their layout on the ground; while the third looks at how Christian symbolism of urban forms was performed through the urban landscape in perennial religious processions. Each of these 'mappings' points to the symbolic, mystical significance urban form had in the Middle Ages, based on religious faith, and they thus offer a deepened appreciation of how urban landscapes were represented, constructed and experienced at the time.key words urban morphology medieval Europe landscape iconography

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Urban Life in the Middle Ages 1000–1450

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The cradle of the city: the environmental imprint of Brussels and its hinterland in the High Middle Ages

The cradle of the city: the environmental imprint of Brussels and its hinterland in the High Middle Ages

The archaeological study of neighborhoods and districts in ancient cities

Cities of God? Medieval urban forms and their Christian symbolism

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