This lecture series in the Fall term 2021, Thursdays 17:30–19:00 (MEST), presents “the question whether the governance and autonomy of medieval cities and the participation of their citizens in managing communal affairs may be regarded a laboratory of democracy or yet another form of the rule of the privileged has re-emerged with new answers in recent scholarship. Besides urban and legal historians and scholars of political thought, research in art history, literacy, spatial studies, and global history have provided a set of new answers. Governing bodies and institutions, with varying degree of participation by inhabitants of different social and legal standing have been examined, as well as the shaping of the physical environment, including its open spaces, buildings and ornaments.” There is also some Jewish Studies content included.
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Andreas Lehnertz (October 5, 2021). Urban Governance and Civic Participation in Words and Stone Lecture Series. medievalJewishStudiesNow! Retrieved April 21, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/rhg3