SRP (Groeiers): The cradle of modernity? Social dynamics in the cities of Brabant and Flanders in a comparative and long-term perspective, 1350-1914 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, History, Archeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics, Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes
Cities have been attributed a crucial role in Europe’s history over the past millennium: as engines of specialization, commercialization, industrialization, social differentiation and individualization, as determining factors in processes of state formation, as cradles of new ideas, art forms and social relations, and as hallmarks of modernity. Yet cities obviously have no agency of themselves, but provide a specific spatial setting for the ...