: Albrecht Classen
: Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age The Spatial Turn in Premodern Studies
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< >In the wake of the Spatial Turn and the emergence of ecocritical theory, rural space proves to be a highly fertile ground for the reexamination of medieval and early modern literature, history, and art history. This volume combines critical articles that examine the way how rural space was perceived, presented, and evaluated in the Middle Ages and the early modern time. The extensive introduction surveys the history of research on this topic and outlines major approaches toward Rural Studies. The articles pursue specialized research topics pertaining to rural space.



< >Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, USA.
Introduction. Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: A Significant Domain Ignored For Too Long by Modern Research?11
1. Critical Inquiry: The Relevance of Rural Space11
2. Natural Space and the Medieval Encyclopedia19
3. The Spatial Turn in Medieval and Premodern Studies24
4. Rural Space and Ecocriticism27
5. Space and Historical-Literary Investigations39
6. Perception of Rural Space in The Voyage of St. Brendan: An Early-Medieval Voice40
7. Nature in a Spanish Medieval Epic Poem: El Poema de Mío Cid: Human Drama in the Wilderness45
8. The Mountain in the Art and Literature of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: The Most Massive Challenge in Nature47
9. Climbing the Mountain, or Ascending to the Renaissance? Franceso Petrarca’s Reflections on Nature50
10. Oswald von Wolkenstein: The Aristocrat versus the Peasant. Secret Longing for Life in Rural Space?54
11. The Perception of the Natural World: The Testimony of Medieval Courtly Literature59
12. Growing up in the Wilderness: Youthful Experiences in the Forest: Perceval/Parzival in the Romances by Chrétien de Troye and Wolfram von Eschenbach61
13. Ominous Approaches: Wolfram von Eschenbach's Titurel: Seeking Refuge from Society in the Forest66
14. Nature and the Courtly World: Literary Reflections on Rural Space in High Medieval Literature67
15. The Protagonist's Existential Test in Nature: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight69
16. Love (?) in the Mountains: Juan Ruiz’s Libro de buen amor. Late-Medieval Spanish Reflections on Rural Space71
17. Rural Space in Late-Medieval Short Verse Narratives76
18. The Court, the City, and the Rural Space in Boccaccio's Decameron78
19. William Langland's Piers the Plowman: Late-Medieval English Religious and Social Reflections80
20. Johannes von Tepl's Ackermann: A German-Czech Writer's Reference to the Metaphorical Peasant87
21. Hugo von Trimberg's Renner: A Thirteenth-Century Didactic Perspective Toward Peasants88
22. Wernher der Gartenære's Helmbrecht: The Attempted Break. Out of the Social Order91
23. The Testimony of Medieval and Late-Medieval Art93
24. Peasants, Rural Existence, the Protestant Reformation and Farmer's Self-Expression Until the Seventeenth Century97
25. Economic Aspects Pertaining to Rural Space101
26. Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring110
27. Rural Space and the Supportive Peasant Figure in Queen Sibille (Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken)112
28. Collaboration of the Good Peasant with the Noble Lady113
29. Exploration of Rural Space in Sixteenth-Century Literature: Till Eulenspiegel and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron116
30. The Testimony of Late-Medieval Art Once Again124
31. Acknowledgment and Summaries of All Contributions in this Volume136
32. Conclusion190
Chapter 1. Reforming the Monastic Landscape: Peter Damian's Design for Personal and Communal Devotion203
Chapter 2. Women's Place and Women's Space in the Medieval Village219
Chapter 3. “Gebrochen bluomen unde gras”: Medieval Ecological Consciousness in Selected Poems by Walther von der Vogelweide237
Chapter 4. Utopian Space in the Countryside: Love and Marriage between a Knight and a Peasant Girl in Medieval German Literature. Hartmann von Aue's Der arme Heinrich, Anonymous, “Dis ist von dem Heselin,” Walther von der Vogelweide, Oswald von Wolkenste261
Chapter 5. Rural Space and Agricultural Space in the Old French Fabliaux and the Roman de Renart291
Chapter 6. Wood, Court, and River in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi305
Chapter 7. Rural Space and Transgressive Space in Bérenger au lonc cul323
Chapter 8. Life on the Manor and in Rural Space: Answering the Challenges of Social Decay in William Langland's Piers Plowman361
Chapter 9. Landscape of Luxuries: Mahaut d’Artois’s (1302–1329) Management and Use of the Park at Hesdin377
Chapter 10. Hunting or Gardening: Parks and Royal Rural Space399
Chapter 11. The Significance of Rural Space in Guillaume de Palerne417
Chapter 12. The Forest as Locus of Transition and Transformation in the Epic Romance Berte aus grans pies443
Chapter 13. Juan Manuel’s Libro de la caza (ca. 1325)461
Chapter 14. Hunting as Salvation in Gaston Phebus’s Livre de chasse515
Chapter 15. Rural Space in Late Medieval Books of Hours: Book Illustrations as a Looking-Glass Into Medieval Mentality and Mirrors of Ecocriticism539
Chapter 16. The Tame Wilderness of Princes: Images of Nature in Exemplars of Books of Hours and in the Livre du Cœur d’amour épris of King René of Anjou571
Chapter 17. Marshy Spaces in the Middle English Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne: Physical and Spiritual Territory599
Chapter 18. Peasant Authors and Peasant Haters: Matazone da Caligano and the Ambiguity of the Satira del villano in High and Late Medieval Italy617
Chapter 19. “Lazarus and Abraham, our Jews of Eggenburg”: Jews in the Austrian Countryside in the Fourteenth Century649
Chapter 20. Small Town, Big Business: A Wealthy Jewish Moneylender in the Austrian Countryside683
Chapter 21. Usos rerum rusticarum: Malae consuetudines, male usos lege and Peasant Rebellion as Resistance or Adaptation to Legal Change695
Chapter 22. Village People: The Presence of the Rural in Late Medieval French Comedies713
Chapter 23. Uprooted Trees and Slaughtered Peasants: The Savaging of Rural Space in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1532)739
Chapter 24. Representations of the Plowman and the Prostitute in Puritan and Anti-Puritan Satire: Or the Rhetoric of Plainness and the Reformation of the Popular in the Harvey Nashe Quarrel765
Chapter 25. The Poet in Exile: Robert Herrick and the “loathed Country-life”805
Chapter 26. Women at the Hunt: Developing a Gendered Logic of Rural Space in the Netherlandish Visual Tradition829
Chapter 27. “The free Enjoyment of the Earth”: Gerrard Winstanley on Land Reform875
List of Illustrations901
Contributors905
Index915