Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in a period when the nature and conception of both was drastically transformed.

Knowledge and the Early Modern City: An Introduction Part 1. Knowledge and the Staging of the City 1 The theatrum as an Urban Site of Knowledge in the Low Countries, c. 1560-1620 2 Artisanal 'Histories' in Early Modern Nuremberg 3 Boatmen, Druids and Parisii in Lutetia: Archaeologising Parisian Society in Eighteenth-Century Civic Epistemology Part 2. Urban Agency, Science, Technology and the Making of the City 4 Stench and the City. Urban Odours and Technological Innovation in Early Modern Leiden and Batavia 5 Cities, Long-Distance Corporations and Open Air Sciences: Antwerp, Amsterdam and Leiden in the Early Modern Period 6 Technology Transfer, Ship Design and Urban Policy in the age of Nicolaes Witsen Part 3. Imperial Cities, Knowledge for Empires? 7 André de Avelar and the City of Coimbra: Spaces of Knowledge and Belief during the Early Modern Iberian Union 8 Roman Urbans Epistemologies: Global Space and Universal Time in the Rebuilding of a Sixteenth-century City 9 The library, the City, the Empire: De-provincialising Vienna in the Early Seventeenth Century