City Halls and Civic Materialism

London’s civic ceremonies marked the relationships between the mayors and the crown, but also between denizens and their government, gild wardens and members, masters and apprentic...

Abstract This book explores how to forge more empowering and equitable spaces for civic learning by centering the agency and lived experiences of marginalized groups...

Chapter 2 studies the relationship between historicism and Romanticism. It locates the two between Enlightenment materialism, on one side, and Marxian historical and dialectical ma...

Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagementis an indispensable resource for archaeologists and the communities in which they work. The authors are intensely committed to developing e...

London’s population was made up largely of immigrants so that lessons in civic behavior were taught to the newcomers through a range of ceremonies and institutions. The inauguratio...

This study offers the first extensive analysis of the function and significance of urban panegyric in the Central Middle Ages, a flexible literary genre which enjoyed a marked and ...

An introduction to the life of towns and cities in the medieval period, this book shows how medieval towns grew to become important centers of trade and liberty. Beginning with a l...