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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps and Tables -- List of Appendices -- Historical Map of Early Modern East-Central Europe -- Map of East-Central Europe by 1600 -- Gazetteer -- General Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The Closed Society and its Enemies -- 2 Urbanization Trends and the Urban Landscape -- 3 Urban Immigration -- 4 Integrity of Urban Society Challenged I: Unassimilated Groups in Cities -- 5 Integrity of Urban Society Challenged II: Urban Conflicts and City Autonomy in the Context of Reformation -- 6 Building a Leviathan: The Early Modern City and Early Modern State -- 7 Urban Economy: Its Basic Parameters -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendices

ABSTRACT:In referring to the sociological concept of community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols, the article examines the language of urban communities as applied by pre-1800 urban historiography. The analysis of mostly (East) Central European urban chronicles, burgher diaries and panegyrical texts discloses the strong presence of a normative vision of an idealized community which was projected, however, into the life of a real city.

pt. III. Society and culture. Order, hierarchy and cultural capital. The "bishops of the Hungarian crown" : a case study in the ecclesiastical, social and constitutional history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in south-eastern Europe / Joachim Bahlcke -- Levels of group loyalty at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : Kolozsvár in the Rákóczi War of Independence / Emese Bálint -- Comparing the Enlightenment : men of letters and the intellectual milieu in eighteenth-century Naples / Anna Maria Rao -- Disorder, discipline and denunciation. Burning Germany : cities on fire, fire fighting and fire insurance in early modern Germany / Cornel Zwierlein -- Orthodox demonology and the perception of witchcraft in early modern Ukraine / Kateryna Dysa -- Punishment in sixteenth-century Hungarian towns / Blanka Szeghyová -- Word and print, education and literacy. Reading aloud : between oral and literate communication / Zoran Velagić -- A virgin deserving paradise or a whore deserving poison : manuscript tradition and printed books in Ottoman Turkish society / Orlin Sabev (Orhan Salih) -- Education and denominations in Transdanubia (1910) / Victor Karady -- Register of geographic names