ies grew likewise out of civic administrative records and diplomatic memoranda. Bram Caers and Lisa Demets explore chronicle writing in Bruges and Mechelen, and how differing chronicle traditions within these individual cities reflected deeper political and diplomatic divisions amongst the leading citizens. Marcus Meer’s article is particularly engaging, highlighting the important role that heraldic illustrations and illuminations played in two Augsburg manuscripts containing historical content. As Meer demonstrates, the insertion and use of heraldic arms was no decorative or passive exercise, but communicated particular interpretations of the past and present to its viewers. It was, in effect, a form of ‘visual rhetoric’ vital to establishing and expressing identity and status in patrician circles, and therefore worthy of more scholarly attention than it currently receives. Louise Vermeersch, lastly, focuses on date-chronicles and calendars bearing historical annotations produced in Calvinist Ghent in the later 1500s. Her contribution underlines how they spread news of recent events – notably the atrocities committed by Spanish armies in the ongoing religious wars – reflecting the concerns and interests of their urban readers and highlighting how printers could tailor the content and tone of their prints in line with their intended readership. The volume leaves significant portions of the ‘northwest Europe’ in its title untouched – Denmark, Norway, Scotland, Ireland and central and southern France, for example – but this can be forgiven: tackling a topic as rich as urban historical writing in civic centres across such a diverse region lies clearly beyond the scope of a single volume. The detailed index will aid the focused reader in navigating the contents efficiently and the quality of the volume’s production is high, with quality images in several of the chapters making possible the closer analysis of civic imagery and visual culture. In the final analysis, the volume does a fine job at introducing a diverse range of sources in dialects of Middle Dutch and Early New High German (as well as French materials in Crombie’s contribution) to an Anglophone readership (all source quotations deployed in each chapter are helpfully translated into English), and brings to light important and understudied materials that will be of interest to scholars interested in historical writing and historiography, memory studies, medieval and early modern civic culture and urban life. We can hope that future research in the field follows this volume’s example, and approaches the topic with the same clarity in aim, method and presentation.

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凯文·锡耶纳，腐烂的尸体。十八世纪英国的阶级与传染病。纽黑文：耶鲁大学出版社，2019。x + 333pp。8个数字。30.00 英镑。

IES 同样源于公民行政记录和外交备忘录。Bram Caers 和 Lisa Demets 探索布鲁日和梅赫伦的编年史写作，以及这些个别城市内不同的编年史传统如何反映主要公民之间更深层次的政治和外交分歧。Marcus Meer 的文章特别引人入胜，突出了纹章插图和插图在包含历史内容的两份奥格斯堡手稿中发挥的重要作用。正如梅尔所展示的那样，纹章臂的插入和使用不是装饰性的或被动的运动，而是向观众传达了对过去和现在的特殊解释。实际上，它是一种“视觉修辞”形式，对于在贵族圈子中建立和表达身份和地位至关重要，因此值得更多的学术关注。最后，Louise Vermeersch 专注于 1500 年代后期在加尔文主义者根特制作的带有历史注释的日期编年史和日历。她的贡献强调了他们如何传播最近事件的新闻——尤其是西班牙军队在正在进行的宗教战争中犯下的暴行——反映了城市读者的担忧和兴趣，并强调了印刷商如何根据自己的需求定制印刷品的内容和色调。目标读者。该卷在其标题中保留了“西北欧”的重要部分——例如丹麦、挪威、苏格兰、爱尔兰以及法国中部和南部——但这是可以原谅的：在如此多样化的地区的市民中心处理一个像城市历史写作这样丰富的话题显然超出了单本书的范围。详细的索引将帮助重点读者有效地浏览内容，并且该卷的制作质量很高，其中几章中的高质量图像使得对公民意象和视觉文化的更深入分析成为可能。归根结底，该卷在向英语读者群（每章部署的所有源引文）介绍了中古荷兰语和早期新高地德语方言的各种来源（以及 Crombie 的贡献中的法语材料）方面做得很好有帮助地翻译成英文），并揭示了对历史写作和史学、记忆研究、中世纪和早期现代公民文化以及城市生活感兴趣的学者会感兴趣的重要和研究不足的材料。我们希望该领域的未来研究遵循本书的例子，并在目标、方法和陈述方面以同样清晰的方式接近该主题。