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Shopping and Housing: Shops, Merchants’ Houses and the Market Place in Europe in the Early Modern Age
Abstract:
There has been a sudden growth of interest in both domestic and commercial spaces of Early Modern European cities: this session brings both studies together to consider the open and closed spaces and buildings of European market areas. Papers will look at specialized squares and streets, the private homes of merchants and bankers, and the distinctive buildings for stores, monetary exchange and for sales. Special attention will be given to buildings and sites that enjoyed mixed uses, looking at the ways in which activities overlapped or were separated out under the same roof. This will allow us to question the divisions between private and public, the commercial and the domestic. The session will offer a comparative analysis, examining the differences and analogies between case studies at the same period (Venice, Milan, London, Antwerp, Turin, Rome, Florence). We will discuss multidisciplinary aspects of shopping and housing: the interactions between living and trading quarters, the presence and function of porticos, the connection between house and shop, the use of the public space in front of special buildings as well as the laws and customs imposing rules and control over these spaces.
Session conveners:
- Rosa Tamborrino
- Evelyn Welch
Session type: Main
Classification: EM - Early Modern
Communications
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The shop and the home
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