The Power of Cities: The Iberian Peninsula from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. Sabine Pazram, ed. The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 70. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xxvi + 382 pp. €143
[...]it would be more accurate to say that this book is about the transformations (or lack thereof) that some Spanish cities experienced in their topography over the course of more than a thousand years. Cities would be marked by the cults of martyrs and their relics as well as by the establishment...
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| Published in: | Renaissance Quarterly 2022-04, Vol.75 (1), p.281-283 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | [...]it would be more accurate to say that this book is about the transformations (or lack thereof) that some Spanish cities experienced in their topography over the course of more than a thousand years. Cities would be marked by the cults of martyrs and their relics as well as by the establishment of a new “neuralgic center” dominated by the episcopal complex (52), which included a cathedral, a baptistery, an episcopal palace, and a parish church. In any case, the volume will be useful as an overview of the urban development of Spanish cities in premodern times for readers without a strong knowledge of the subject. |
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| ISSN: | 0034-4338 1935-0236 |