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Review of periodical articles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2006

BÄRBEL BRODT ,
PAUL ELLIOTT  and
LOUISE MISKELL
BÄRBEL BRODT
Affiliation:
Roehampton University, London, SW15 5PU/9, The Willows, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 3HN
PAUL ELLIOTT
Affiliation:
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD
LOUISE MISKELL
Affiliation:
History Department, University of Wales, Swansea, SA2 8PP
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Just as nature fails to produce the ‘perfect harvest’ with predictable regularity, so does the quantity of medieval urban periodical publications vary. The crop of 2005 falls well behind the richer harvests of previous years, in quantity though not in quality of the published work. Two impressions of this work: first, there are fewer obvious ‘themes’ which seem to preoccupy the authors' minds; but, secondly, articles by German and Austrian scholars show a greater concern with the exposition and analysis of major urban themes than do those from the English-speaking world. One wonders why. Could it be that German-speaking urban historians are less hesitant to re-address the seemingly obvious? Two prime examples here are presented by the contributions of Ferdinand Opll and Benjamin Scheller.

Type
Review of periodical articles
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Urban History , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , May 2006 , pp. 126 - 149
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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