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Nicholas Terpstra explores how people experienced the early modern world through sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. Florence, Amsterdam, Boston, and Manila provide the book’s principal settings, connecting local daily experience with religious change, commercial networks, and expanding European encounters across the globe. The study asks how space was lived and understood, rather than treating it simply as the background to historical events.
Organized through the senses, the chapters consider the rhythms of religious and urban life, the meanings carried by sounds and movement, and the ways material surroundings shaped ordinary encounters. Differences of age, social position, gender, and community help explain why the same city could be experienced in very different ways. The result is a compact comparative history of sensory life and spatial relationships during a period of widening connections and profound cultural change.
Nicholas Terpstra. Senses of Space in the Early Modern World. Cambridge University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009435437. CC BY-NC 4.0. Original edition unchanged.