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This volume is based on possibly the biggest single Europe-wide
project in urban history. In 1955 the International Commission for
the History of Towns established the European historic towns atlas
project in accordance with a common scheme in order to encourage
comparative urban studies. Although advances in urban archaeology
since the 1960s have highlighted the problematic relationship
between the oldest extant town plan and the actual origins of a
town, the large-scale cadastral maps as they have been made
available by the European historic towns atlas project are still
necessary if we want to understand the evolution of the physical
form of our towns. By 2014 the project consisted of over 500
individual publications from over 18 different countries across
Europe. Each atlas comprises at least a core-map at the scale of
1:2500, analytical maps and an explanatory text. The time has come
to use this enormous database that has been compiled over the last
40 years. This volume, itself based on a conference related to this
topic that was held in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin in 2006,
takes up this challenge. The focus of the volume is on the question
of how seigneurial power influenced the creation of towns in
medieval Europe and of how this process in turn influenced urban
form. Part I of the volume addresses two major issues: the history
of the use of town plans in urban research and the methodological
challenges of comparative urban history. Parts II and III
constitute the core of the book focusing on the dynamic
relationship between lordship and town planning in the core area of
medieval Europe and on the periphery. In Part IV the symbolic
meaning of town plans for medieval people is discussed. Part V
consists of critical contributions by an archaeologist, an art
historian and an historical geographer. By presenting case studies
by leading researchers from different European countries, this
volume combines findings that were hitherto not available in
English
This volume is based on possibly the biggest single Europe-wide
project in urban history. In 1955 the International Commission for
the History of Towns established the European historic towns atlas
project in accordance with a common scheme in order to encourage
comparative urban studies. Although advances in urban archaeology
since the 1960s have highlighted the problematic relationship
between the oldest extant town plan and the actual origins of a
town, the large-scale cadastral maps as they have been made
available by the European historic towns atlas project are still
necessary if we want to understand the evolution of the physical
form of our towns. By 2014 the project consisted of over 500
individual publications from over 18 different countries across
Europe. Each atlas comprises at least a core-map at the scale of
1:2500, analytical maps and an explanatory text. The time has come
to use this enormous database that has been compiled over the last
40 years. This volume, itself based on a conference related to this
topic that was held in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin in 2006,
takes up this challenge. The focus of the volume is on the question
of how seigneurial power influenced the creation of towns in
medieval Europe and of how this process in turn influenced urban
form. Part I of the volume addresses two major issues: the history
of the use of town plans in urban research and the methodological
challenges of comparative urban history. Parts II and III
constitute the core of the book focusing on the dynamic
relationship between lordship and town planning in the core area of
medieval Europe and on the periphery. In Part IV the symbolic
meaning of town plans for medieval people is discussed. Part V
consists of critical contributions by an archaeologist, an art
historian and an historical geographer. By presenting case studies
by leading researchers from different European countries, this
volume combines findings that were hitherto not available in
English. A comparison of the English and German bibliographies,
attached to this volume, reveals some interesting insights as to
how the focus of research shifted over time. The book also shows
how work on urban topography integrates the approaches of the
historian, archaeologist and historical geographer. The narrative
of medieval urbanization becomes enriched and the volume is a
genuine contribution to European studies.
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