Early modern fire

• Titel: Early modern fire
• Titelzusatz: science, technology, and the urban space
• Mitwirkende: Bernasconi, Gianenrico [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Storni, Marco [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Gianenrico Bernasconi, Marco Storni
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• E-Jahr: 2025
• Jahr: [2025]
• Umfang: XV, 362 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Intersections ; volume 95
• Fussnoten: "The present volume is the result of the international workshop Fire management in the early modern age: Knowledge, technology, economy, held at the University of Neuchâtel on 16-17 September 2021" (Acknowledgements)
• ISBN: 978-90-04-52175-9
• Schlagwörter: (s)Feuer / (s)Brandbekämpfung / (s)Technologie / (s)Verstädterung / (z)Geschichte 1700-1800
• Schlagwörter: (s)Alchemie / (s)Naturwissenschaften / (s)Feuer / (z)Geschichte 1700-1800
• Dokumenttyp: Konferenzschrift: (2021 : Neuchâtel)
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Early modern fire. - Leiden : Brill, 2025. - 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 362 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: NN 1300
• K10plus-PPN: 1902291700

Abstract

"Early Modern Fire offers new perspectives on the history of fire in early modern Europe (ca. 1600-1800). Far from the background role that scholarship has traditionally assigned to fire, the essays in this volume demonstrate its centrality to understanding the entangled histories of science, technology, and society in the pre-industrial period. Analysing case studies ranging from alchemy to cooking, from firefighting to fireworks, the contributors show that the history of fi re is not only one of change and progress, but also of continuity, characterised by the persistence of traditional know-how, small-scale innovation, and the coexistence of different paradigms. Contributors include: Gianenrico Bernasconi, Catherine Denys, Hannah Elmer, Liliane Hilaire-Perez, Olivier Jandot, Cyril Lacheze, Andrew M.A. Morris, Cornelia Muller, Berengere Pinaud, Stefano Salvia, Marco Storni, Marie Thebaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett"