Urban communities in Early Modern Europe (c.1400-1700): a research review

这篇文献综述确定了1400年至1700年间欧洲城市历史中“社区”的思想和实践的当前方法，并提出了新的调查路线的潜力。它有选择地评估了最近的英语文学-从大约2000年-重点是工作，推动该领域的方法向前发展。这种基于桌面的研究与历史学家的访谈相结合，这些历史学家从不同的专业职位从事社区工作。这使得审查成为一个合作的过程，并且是一个领先于已发表的奖学金的过程;访谈本身已经成为一个有用的资源。这些讨论沿着审查参考书目张贴在一个项目网站（www.earlymoderncommunities.com）上，平均每天访问7次，迄今为止（4月至10月）共有1 841次点击。审查的主要结论是建议进一步研究：空间，记忆和日常运动之间的关系，在早期现代城市;社区是如何形成的声音和气味一样多的视觉刺激;边界的性质和谈判之间的多数和信仰和移民少数民族;数字化和地理信息系统如何持有真实的潜力，访问和建模的城市/空间方面的源材料。

This literature review identifies current approaches to ideas and practices of 'community' in European urban history between 1400 and 1700, and suggests where there is potential for new lines of enquiry. It selectively assessed the recent Anglophone literature - from roughly 2000 - with a focus on work that pushes the field forward methodologically. This desk-based research was combined with interviews with historians who work on community from various positions of expertise. This made the review a collaborative process, and one that points ahead of the published scholarship; the interviews have become a useful resource in their own right. These discussions, along with the review bibliography, are posted on a project website (www.earlymoderncommunities.com), accessed an average of seven times a day, with a total of 1,841 hits to date (April-October). The review's principal findings were to recommend further research on: the relationship between space, memory and everyday movement in the early modern city; how communities were shaped by sound and smell as much as by visual stimuli; the nature of boundaries and negotiation between majorities and faith and immigrant minorities; how digitisation and GIS holds real potential for accessing and modelling the urban/spatial dimensions of source material.