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Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Communications in medieval towns - Introductory Remarks -- Lines of Communication in Medieval Dublin -- Places of Power: the Spreading of Official Information and the Social Uses of Space in Fifteenth-Century Paris -- Les communications en ville: Danemark et Schleswig-Holstein au Moyen Âge et à l'époque moderne -- Ferry services and social life in early modern Norwegian towns -- Between free passage and restriction. Roads and bridges in the towns of Wallachia and Moldavia (16th-18th century)

The advent of email and texting has dramatically changed the way we communicate. In essence, we have lost touch in our dealings with each other. This change may have been speeded by newer technologies, but telegraphs and telephones had a great impact in our perceptions of time and place. Before mass communication, the way we ordered and embedded knowledge and the possibilities of social interaction were defined by the extended human experience of living in towns. Can this experience be replicated with new technologies?