Physical and cultural space in pre-industrial Europe | 0:e upplagan

Prior to the Industrial Era, the geography of Europe posed problems, but also offered possibilities for the people living here. Distances created obstacles to communicationand state formation, but at the same time, inhabitants and officials in peripheral areas gained room to pursue more independent action and allowing unique customs to flourish. In Physical and Cultural Space in Pre-industrial Europe the authors seek to answer how early modern Europeans rulers, officials, aristocrats, scholars, priests,and commoners perceived, utilized and organized the space around them. The geographic focus is on northernEurope, where distances played a more important rolein society than in the densely populated areas of SouthernEurope.Written by nineteen scholars of history, archaeologyand ethnology, Physical and Cultural Space in PreindustrialEurope takes a multidisciplinary approachto European spaces of the past and the human agentswithin them.