Parallel Polis. Cities in Central Europe as Imagined Communities, 1450-1800

An interdisciplinary book uniquely combining methods and concepts of history, sociology and literary science. The monograph explores the normative idea of a premodern city as it should be, namely as the ideal(ized) community, politically autonomous entity based upon republican values with its own mythology and also as a strictly symmetrical place being the distinctive feature of the rational human civilisation.