In urban life, streets are elemental, but urban history seldom places them centre stage. It tends to view them as mere backdrops for events or social relations,
A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France.
For the first time, Early Modern Streets unites the diverse strands of scholarship on urban streets between circa 1450 and 1800 and tackles key questions on how
Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen
The early modern period is often characterised as a time that witnessed the rise of a new and powerful merchant class across Europe. From Italy and Spain in the