Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
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Albrecht Classen
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Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110223903
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Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern CultureISSN
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1
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CHF 159.70
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Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
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English
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764
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< >The contributors to this new volume explore the wide gamut of characteristic features determining the rise of the city as a central living space since the high Middle Ages, and extend the investigation up to the eighteenth century. Historians, literary historians, and art historians reflect upon the meaning of urban space as it evolved since ca. 1200, offering new case studies, exploring specific approaches by artists and poets, and investigating how the various social classes interacted with each other within the city over time. Gender issues and legal aspects play as important roles as economic, religious, and architectural elements.
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Albrecht Classen
, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
Table of Contents
6
Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: Historical, Mental, Cultural, and Social Economic Investigations
10
The Dead and the Living: Some Medieval Descriptions of the Ruins and Relics of Rome Known to the English
156
Defining the Medieval City through Death: A Case Study
192
The Demographics of Urban Space in Crusade Period Jerusalem (1099–1187)
214
Hereditary Laws and City Topography: On the Development of the Italian Notarial Archives in the Late Middle Ages
234
“A reuer . . . brighter þen boþe the sunne and mone”: The Use of Water in the Medieval Consideration of Urban Space
254
Jews and the City: Parameters of Jewish Urban Life in Late Medieval Austria
282
Next Door Neighbors: Aspects of Judeo Christian Cohabitation in Medieval France
318
Universal Salvation in the Earthly City: De Civitate Dei and the Significance of the Hazelnut in Julian of Norwich’s Showings
340
“With Teeth Clenched and an Angry Face:” Vengeance, Visitors and Judicial Power in Fourteenth-Century France
362
Urban and Liminal Space in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale: Perilous or Protective?
382
Imagining Urban Life and Its Discontents: Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale and Masculine Identity
404
Women, Men, and Markets: The Gendering of Market Space in Late Medieval Ghent
418
Anger and the City: Who Was in Charge of the Paris cabochien Revolt of 1413?
442
“The Merchants of My Florence”: A Socio Political Complaint from 1457
472
Urban Space Divided? The Encounter of Civic and Courtly Spheres in Late Medieval Towns
490
Urban Literary Entertainment in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: The Example of Tyrol
514
Urban Spaces in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea
546
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)
576
Urban Space as Social Conscience in Isabella Whitney’s “Wyll and Testament”
604
Waqf and its Influence on the Built Environment in the Medina of the Islamic Middle Eastern City
624
The Role of Imperial Mosque Complexes (1543-1583) in the Urbanization of Üsküdar
654
Early Modern Dutch Women in the City: The Imaging of Economic Agency and Power
676
Sewers, Cesspools, and Privies: Waste as Reality and Metaphor in Pre modern European Cities
722
Illustrations
744
Contributors
750
Index
760
