HIS243H1 Lecture : Social Structure in Europe
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Social structure in early modern europe: urban life: city + neighborhood. Bologna; early modern people had a number of towers spaced within their city, which became the symbol for their city. Composed of church towers and family towers from the middle ages which established the pride, location, and defense of a family symbolic and protective) ^- when cities start changing their methods and try to curb the power of individual families, they often forced families to cut towers down, or did it for them. Sienna - competition between state and church reflected in each building large towers. Hantwerpen (antwerp) - large cathedral tower, extreme point of city pride. Note, where their towers were most often associate with churches, ours are now associated with banks. People would decorate maps of their cities on their wall - mapmaking of cities becoming extremely popular.
