This book engages with the complex interplay between urbanisation and inequality. In doing so it concentrates on the Low Countries, one of the oldest and most urbanised societies of Europe.

50^th volume in the book series Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800)

This volume offers 15 contributions dedicated to the transmission and influence of Ptolemy’s astronomy and astrology in the Islamic world and in Christian Europe from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century.

Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

This collection of essays by leading scholars reflects new interest in how graphic devices contributed to the production of knowledge during a formative period of European history.

With contributions by Yuval Harari, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Mary Carruthers, Lucy Freeman Sandler, ...