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The Great Transformation of the Town

Dimitrije Sergejev

Sažetak

In its rich and long history the
town passed through many
different directions and
intensities of development. This
led many historians, sociologists
and other social research workers
to give very varied theories about
its development. In this
discussion the author starts from
Kulischer's hypothesis that the
flourishing of towns and the urban
culture is a characteristic of
medieval Western Europe, i.e. he
considers it to be the basic
difference between the Middle
Ages and the Classical period,
and the West and the East. In an
attempt to found this hypothesis,
the author gives a historical
survey of the development of
towns, and finds it to be both
correct and incorrect. The
Classical civilization around the
Mediterranean Sea was an urban
civilization, but hardly any of
those towns were centres of
production, which is the basis of
Kulischer's hypothesis. It was not
until the Middle Ages that towns
went through that internal
transformation, becoming
predominantly centres of
production and integrators of a
new civilization.

Ključne riječi

Hrčak ID:

119607

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/119607

Datum izdavanja:

8.12.1981.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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