2025 - Franco Angeli
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The "Invisible Market" : a Methodological Proposal for Identifying Architecture and Spaces of Commercial Practice in Early Modern Cities (14th--16th Centuries)
2025 - Franco Angeli
91-120 p.
even without being formally designated as a "market". The article draws on an extensive documentary base, complemented by visual sources, and discusses the limitations, comparative potential, and applicability of the framework in Iberian and Ibero-ÂÂAmerican contexts. The proposed methodology thus offers a new way to trace commerce in the city and to understand its role in urban transformation, constituting an original contribution to the interpretation of city formation through its commercial spaces and architectures. [Publisher's text]
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ISSN: 1972-5523
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- Città premoderne Storia economica Mercato invisibile Architettura commerciale Regolamentazione urbana Metodologia indiziaria
- Early Modern Cities, Economic History, Invisible Market, Commercial Architecture, Urban Regulation, Evidentiary Methodology