Full Description
The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe contributes to nascent debates on concepts of neighbourliness and belonging, exploring the operation of the pre-modern neighbourhood in social practice. Formal administrative units, such as the manor and the parish, have been the object of much scholarly attention yet the experience and limits of neighbourhood remain understudied. Building on recent advances in the histories of emotions and material culture, this volume explores a variety of themes on residential proximity, from its social, cultural and religious implications to material and economic perspectives. Contributors also investigate the linguistic categories attached to neighbours and neighbourhood, tracing their meaning and use in a variety of settings to understand the ways that language conditioned the relationships it described. Together they contribute to a more socially and experientially grounded understanding of neighbourly experience in pre-modern Europe.
Contents
Introduction: Neighbourhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Revisited Part I: Neighbours and Neighbourhoods 1. Home and 'Away': Neighbours and Strangers in the Urban Communities of Southern Italy at the Start of the Thirteenth Century 2. Neighbourhood and Local Knowledge in Later Medieval England 3. Senses of Neighbourhood (Vicinanza) in Sixteenth-Century Venice Part II: Conflict and Coexistence 4. Neighbours Across the Religious Divide: Coping with Difference in Henrician Kent 5. Neighbourhood Strife and Enmity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Tuscany: A Platform for New Research 6. 'They call their neighbours cowards for not assisting them': Custom, Neighbourliness and Popular Resistance in Early Modern England 7. A Street of Many Parishes: Chester Neighbours, 1670-1730 Part III: Charity and Support 8. Charity and Neighbourly Communities Among the Guilds of Late Medieval Ghent 9. 'All to make mery with': Testamentary Bequests to Neighbours in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century York 10. Neighbourliness and Poor Relief in Elizabethan Hadleigh, Suffolk Part IV: Friendship and Belonging 11. Friends, Family and Neighbours in High-Medieval England: A Hagiographical Perspective 12. Neighbours, Friends and Communal Sentiment in Late Medieval Zagreb 13. Friends, Neighbours and Strained Relationships in Seventeenth-Century Norwich and Norfolk 14. 'Doing Neighbourhood': Practising Neighbourliness in the Diocese of Durham, 1624-31
