Despite the great wave of publications on European cities and towns in the pre-industrial period, little has been written about the thousands of small towns whi

Little has been written about the thousands of small towns which played a key role in the economic, social and cultural life of early modern Europe. This collec

In urban life, streets are elemental, but urban history seldom places them centre stage. It tends to view them as mere backdrops for events or social relations,

Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print culture, book h

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