Mirrors-for-Magistrates as Vehicles for Architectural Design Theories on the City and Its Buildings
(2022) Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America — Location: Dublin (30.March.2022)
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- This paper proposes to study political advice books, addressed to the urban elite in cities of the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries and the German Lands (1200-1500), as vehicles of late medieval architectural design theories on the city and its buildings. From the thirteenth century onwards, when urban political elites of these geographical areas acquired increasing responsibility in the governance of the city, new textual traditions of political advice books developed, addressing the moral, political and legal qualities required of the urban magistracy to achieve the common good and secure civic peace. Believing a well-organized city contributed to peace and order, such literature often included ideas on architectural patronage and design. This paper introduces mirrors-for-magistrates as a corpus to study late medieval architectural design theories on the city and its buildings, and discusses the methodological challenges for study they present.
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De Raedt, N. (2022). Mirrors-for-Magistrates as Vehicles for Architectural Design Theories on the City and Its Buildings. Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Dublin. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/105228