Páratlan Párizs: Metropolisz-élmény a modernitás előtt
Unparalleled Paris: A Metropolis Experience Before Modernity

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, research on the experience of the city has increasingly opened up to the involvement of previously neglected senses and the problem of urban space. The focus of this study is on the experience of Paris as a metropolis in the late medieval and early modern periods, and within this, as a prominent example, a rather narrow range of phenomena, the sounds associated with various crafts and their cultural environment. After a more general overview of research examining the experience of the city and its sound environment, I examine how the cries of street vendors, the announcements of the official crier and the ringing of bells related to economic activities illuminate, firstly, the spatiality of urban crafts, urban consumption and the logic of regulation, and secondly, how these sounds and the literary, visual and musical genres based on them give an image of the premodern metropolis and its experience.

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