Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age / / ed. by Albrecht Classen.
Although the city as a central entity did not simply disappear with the Fall of the Roman Empire, the development of urban space at least since the twelfth century played a major role in the history of medieval and early modern mentality within a social-economic and religious framework. Whereas some...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (757 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: Historical, Mental, Cultural, and Social Economic Investigations
- The Dead and the Living: Some Medieval Descriptions of the Ruins and Relics of Rome Known to the English
- Defining the Medieval City through Death: A Case Study
- The Demographics of Urban Space in Crusade Period Jerusalem (1099–1187)
- Hereditary Laws and City Topography: On the Development of the Italian Notarial Archives in the Late Middle Ages
- “A reuer . . . brighter þen boþe the sunne and mone”: The Use of Water in the Medieval Consideration of Urban Space
- Jews and the City: Parameters of Jewish Urban Life in Late Medieval Austria
- Next Door Neighbors: Aspects of Judeo Christian Cohabitation in Medieval France
- Universal Salvation in the Earthly City: De Civitate Dei and the Significance of the Hazelnut in Julian of Norwich’s Showings
- “With Teeth Clenched and an Angry Face:” Vengeance, Visitors and Judicial Power in Fourteenth-Century France
- Urban and Liminal Space in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale: Perilous or Protective?
- Imagining Urban Life and Its Discontents: Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale and Masculine Identity
- Women, Men, and Markets: The Gendering of Market Space in Late Medieval Ghent
- Anger and the City: Who Was in Charge of the Paris cabochien Revolt of 1413?
- “The Merchants of My Florence”: A Socio Political Complaint from 1457
- Urban Space Divided? The Encounter of Civic and Courtly Spheres in Late Medieval Towns
- Urban Literary Entertainment in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: The Example of Tyrol
- Urban Spaces in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea
- Hans Sachs and his Encomia Songs on German Cities: Zooming Into and Out of Urban Space from a Poetic Perspective. With a Consideration of Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493)
- Urban Space as Social Conscience in Isabella Whitney’s “Wyll and Testament”
- Waqf and its Influence on the Built Environment in the Medina of the Islamic Middle Eastern City
- The Role of Imperial Mosque Complexes (1543-1583) in the Urbanization of Üsküdar
- Early Modern Dutch Women in the City: The Imaging of Economic Agency and Power
- Sewers, Cesspools, and Privies: Waste as Reality and Metaphor in Pre modern European Cities
- Backmatter