The Struggle for Urban Space in the Later Medieval City. The Case of Bruges (c. 1300 - c. 1580)

Depending on socio-economic, political and symbolic interests of various actors, groups and institutions medieval urban space was appropriated, controlled, fragmented, recomposed, reorganized, reinvented and put to other usages. This project, which focuses in a comparative perspective on late medieval Bruges, considers power and conflict as central to the formation of medieval urban landscapes.