Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter s1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures and Tables 7
4. About the Volume 11
5. Introduction: Protagonists of Urban Order in Pre-modern Times 13
6. I. Representing Urban Order
7. 1. Traditional and New Ways of Dubrovnik’s Noble Elite to Maintain Urban Order in the Fourteenth Century 31
8. 2. Guardians of Urban Order? Autocratic Mayors in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Hans Waldmann 45
9. 3. Magistrates of the Venetian Republic as Decision-makers and Executors Welcoming Foreigners to the City (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries) 67
10. II. Transforming Spatial Order
11. 4. Mythologizing Cities and Kings : The Wessex burhs of King Alfred the Great 83
12. 5. Spatial Order and City Authorities in Thirteenth-Century Bologna 105
13. 6. The Role of Female Monasteries in the Organization of Urban Spaces in Southern Italian Cities: The Case of Matera 115
14. 7. Urban Community and the Common Good Control over the Building Activities and Water Management in Southern Italy (Thirteenth– Fourteenth Centuries) 127
15. III. Changing Social Order
16. 8. Plague and the Social Order in Early Modern Italy: Tuscany, 1630–1633 149
17. 9. Civil Society and Urban Order: Suggestions and Questions 165
18. 10. Urban Order in the Early Years of Narvik (1902–1910) 179
19. IV. Protagonists of Urban Order in a Diachronic Perspective
20. 11. Protagonists of Urban Spatial Order in a Longue Durée Perspective: Example of the City of Luxembourg 201
21. 12. From Medieval Principality to Modern State : The Impact of Change on Towns in the Romanian Area 231
22. 13. Perceptions of Urban Poverty and Good Polity in Denmark from the Black Death to 2021 247
23. Index of Names 261
24. Index of Places 263