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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY,Vol.43,Issue5,P.811-829

语言

英文

关键字

guilds; labor; knowledge economy; actor network theory; LATE-MEDIEVAL FLANDERS; EARLY-MODERN ANTWERP; URBAN-ECONOMY; 18TH-CENTURY; GUILDS; POLITICS; LIFE

作者单位

[De Munck, Bert] Univ Antwerp, Dept Hist, Antwerp, Belgium. [De Munck, Bert] Univ Antwerp, Ctr Urban Hist, Antwerp, Belgium. De Munck, B (reprint author), Univ Antwerp, Ctr Stadsgeschiedenis, Ctr Urban Hist, Urban Studies Inst, Prinsstr 13 D325, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium. E-Mail: bert.demunck@uantwerpen.be

摘要

Current ideas about the "agency" of cities are dominated by economists and economic geographers who point to agglomeration economies and the clustering of institutions, if not to "creative classes" and a tolerant and diverse cultural climate. In this article, such views will be historized and denaturalized. It will be examined how " urban agency" was fabricated in the late medieval and early modern period, stressing the role of political philosophy and epistemology. First, focusing on guilds and artisanal economic actors, I will describe the coemergence of specific types of skills and knowledge and the urban as a community and body politic. Subsequently, I will argue that the city as an "assemblage" transformed drastically during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, showing that the transformations concerning both the political and economic identity of guild-based artisans and the city as a specific political community were contingent on specific attitudes and practices related to matter and materiality.