Sensing the Street

Routledge 2023

It is our senses that connect us to places – that root us to them – and through which we understand them. In a much-quoted definition of the reciprocal nature of places and the senses, anthropologist Steven Feld argues that ‘as place is sensed, senses are placed; as places make sense, senses make place’. Understanding the early modern street, then, demands an experiential engagement with its materiality, and a detailed and sensitive analysis of the evidence we have for early modern responses to it – why, how, where and for what reasons were sensory perceptions of street life discussed by the men and women who walked through early modern communities? This chapter outlines some of the directions that scholarship has taken to engage with how senses and street culture shaped one another, and it suggests directions for future work.

D History (General); D203 Modern History, 1453; D901 Europe (General); NA Architecture; Book section; PeerReviewed

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Sensing the Street

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Richardson, Catherine (2023) Sensing the Street. In: van den Heuvel, Danielle, ed. Early Modern Streets: A European Perspective. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-59984-0. (doi:10.4324/9781003202103 ) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:103322 )
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