Swearing day at the Weinhof in Ulm. Gouache by Jonas Arnold (um 1650)

“Sensory Communities”

By Prof. Dr. Philip Hahn

Full title: Sensory Communities: Perception, Order, and Community Building in the Early Modern Town, ca. 1480-1880

The timeframe of this book project is deliberately broad and proposes an over-long early modern period. Spatially, it is the opposite, as it offers a case study on Ulm, a middle-sized free imperial city (until 1802/03) on the river Danube. The goal of this study is to uncover long-term transformations and short-term changes in the meaning and function of sense perception in urban society over 400 years. While it is meant principally as a contribution to urban history, the book will also relate to research in the history of natural science and medicine, environmental history, the history of religiosity and confessionalization, and the cultural history of politics.

Project Website (Universität des Saarlandes)


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
nemos (June 13, 2024). “Sensory Communities” NEMoS. Retrieved May 11, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/12rls


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