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Inequality and the City in the Low Countries (1200-2020) SEUH StUdiES in EUropEan Urban HiStory (1100-1800) Volume 50 Series Editors Marc Boone Anne-Laure Van Bruaene Ghent University Inequality and the City in the Low Countries (1200-2020) Edited by Bruno Blondé, Sam Geens, Hilde Greefs, Wouter Ryckbosch, Tim Soens & Peter Stabel F Cover illustration: J. P. Filedt Kok, ‘Master of Alkmaar, Panel of a Polyptych with the Seven Works of Charity: Feeding the Hungry, 1504’, in J. P. Filedt Kok (ed.), Early Netherlandish Paintings, online coll. cat. Amsterdam 2009: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.362369 (accessed 6 January 2020). © 2020, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium. All righ ts reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a re trieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, m echanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. D/2020/0095/122 ISBN 978-2-503-58868-1 eISBN 978-2-503-58869-8 DOI 10.1484/M.SEUH-EB.5.119604 ISSN 1780-3241 eISSN 2294-8368 Printed on acid-free paper. This is an open access publication distributed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International License. In memory of Raymond van Uytven (1933-2018), founder of the Urban History Workshop at the University of Antwerp Contents Acknowledgments 11 Part I Introduction The Low Countries’ Paradox 15 Historical Perspectives on Inequality and the City Bruno Blondé, Sam Geens, Hilde Greefs, Wouter Ryckbosch, Tim Soens and Peter Stabel Part II The Urbanisation of Inequality Get Rich and Try Dyeing 45 Cloth Production and Social Inequality in Town and Countryside (Sixteenth Century) Jim van der Meulen Did Urban Manure Nourish the Country? 63 Social Consequences of Fertiliser Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Flemish Farming Pieter De Graef Cities in Motion 79 Mobility, Migration Selectivity and Demographic Change in Belgian Cities, 1846-1910 Hilde Greefs and Anne Winter Organising the Work-Home Split by the Urban-Rural Link 101 Transport Networks, Mobility and Urbanisation in Early Twentieth-Century Belgium Ingrid Schepers, Janet Polasky, Ann Verhetsel and Greet De Block The City and the Parking Lot 123 Movement and Standstill on the 21st-century Urban Labour Market Ann Coenen 8 contents Part III Politics of Inequality The Impact of Urban Elites’ Political Participation on Economic Policy in the Low Countries 1100-1600 141 Wim Blockmans Si grant inégalité? 153 Town, Countryside and Taxation in Flanders, c. 1350 – c. 1500 Thijs Lambrecht The Rise of the Fiscal State? 169 Urban Finances, Politics and Social Inequality in Sixteenth-Century ’s- Hertogenbosch Bruno Blondé, Jord Hanus and Wouter Ryckbosch An Experiment of Social Equality? 183 The Case of the Calvinist Republic in Antwerp (1577-1585) Guido Marnef Law Courts and Social Inequality in the Cities of the Eighteenth-Century Low Countries 199 Griet Vermeesch Part IV Shocks, Crises and Inequality The Great Destruction of People and Wealth 213 The Impact of the Ghent Revolt on Wealth Inequality in the Last Quarter of the Fourteenth Century Sam Geens Levelling Through Space? 231 The Redistributive Capacity of Demographic Decline in Antwerp’s Darkest Hour (1584-1586) Rogier van Kooten Real Property, Speculation and Housing Inequality 251 Bruges, 1550-1670 Heidi Deneweth contents 9 Part V Cultural and Consumer Dynamics of Inequality Craft Guilds as Vectors of Middle-Class Values 271 Peter Stabel and Anke De Meyer In Haste for Better Taste? 289 The Social Effects of Changing Dining Cultures in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Bruges Inneke Baatsen Comforts of Difference 309 Social Inequality and the Material Culture of Energy in Eighteenth-Century Ghent Wout Saelens Violent classes? 329 Interpersonal Violence and Social Inequality in Mechelen, 1350-1700 Maarten F. Van Dijck The New Police as Agents of Class Control? 343 Urban Policing and its Socio-Geographical Focus in Nineteenth-Century Antwerp Margo De Koster and Antoon Vrints Part VI Methodological, Theoretical and Contemporary Perspectives How was City Life? 359 Moving beyond GDP and Real Income to Measure Pre-modern Welfare and Inequality Levels Maïka De Keyzer Diachrony, Synchrony and Modernity 377 How to Contribute to the Debate on Economic Inequality from an Historical Perspective? Bert De Munck Different systems and inequalities? 397 Comparing education in the Low Countries Noel Clycq , Lore Van Praag and François Levrau Aipril 411
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