Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age /

Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age / / ed. by Albrecht Classen.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Alfie, Fabian,
Alvarez Perez, Rosa,
Amann, Klaus,
Benson, C. David,
Bonine, Michael E.,
Classen, Albrecht,
Coudert, Allison P.,
Hirschbiegel, Jan,
Hutton, Shennan,
Jost, Jean E.,
Kayaalp, Pınar,
Meyer, Andreas,
Moffitt Peacock, Martha,
Murray, Alan V.,
Pigg, Daniel F.,
Ross, Lia B.,
Rothauser, Britt C. L.,
Sandidge, Marilyn,
Scarborough, Connie,
Siller, Max,
Tracy, Kisha G.,
Turning, Patricia,
Wiedl, Birgit,
Zeilinger, Gabriel,
Zissell, Jeanette S.,
HerausgeberIn:
Classen, Albrecht,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 4
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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

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