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Volume II charts European urbanism between 700–1850, the millennium during which Europe became the world's most urbanised region. Featuring thirty-six chapters from leading scholars working on all the major linguistic areas of Europe, the volume offers a state-of-the-art survey that explores and explains this transformation, how similar or different such processes were across Europe, and how far it is possible to discern traits that characterise European urbanism in this period. The first half of the volume offers overviews on the urban history of Mediterranean Europe, Atlantic and North Sea Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, and European urbanisms around the world. The second half explores major themes, from the conceptualisation of cities and their material fabric to continuities and changes in the social, political, economic, religious, and cultural histories of cities and towns.

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Patrick Lantschner is Associate Professor in the Department of History at University College London. He works on cities and political order across Europe, and the Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages. His book The Logic of Political in Medieval Cities: Italy and the Southern Low Countries, 1370–1440 (2015) won the 2016 Bronisław Geremek Prize for outstanding first book. Maarten Prak was, until his retirement in 2021, Professor of Social and Economic History at the Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University. He is an expert on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, particularly the Dutch Golden Age. He is the author of Citizens without Nations: Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World c. 1000–1789 (2018).

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