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Cities, texts, and social networks, 400-1500

experiences and perceptions of medieval urban space

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Ashgate, Routledge
Language
English
Pages
361

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Table of Contents

Introduction / Caroline J. Goodson, Anne E. Lester, and Carol Symes
Constructing and restructuring
Writing and restoration in Rome : inscriptions, statues, and the late antique preservation of buildings / Gregor Kalas
How to found an Islamic city / Hugh Kennedy
Metropolitan architecture, demographics, and the urban identity of Paris in the thirteenth century / Meredith Cohen
Topographies as texts
The meaning of topography in Umayyad Córdoba / Ann Christys
Crafting a charitable landscape : urban topographies in charters and testaments from medieval Champagne / Anne E. Lester
Anger and spectacle in late medieval Rome : gauging emotion in urban topography / Joëlle Rollo-Koster and Alizah Holstein
Citizens and saints
Local sanctity and civic typology in early medieval Pavia : the example of the cult of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny / Scott G. Bruce
Cities and their saints in England, circa 1150-1300 : the development of bourgeois values in the cults of Saint William of York and Saint Kenelm of Winchcombe / Sarah Rees Jones
The myth of urban unity : religion and social performance in late medieval Braunschweig / Franz-Josef Arlinghaus
Agency and authority
City as charter : charity and the lordship of English towns, 1170-1250 / Sethina Watson
"The best place in the world" : imaging urban prisons in late medieval Italy / Guy Geltner
Out in the open, in Arras : sightlines, soundscapes, and the shaping of a medieval public sphere / Carol Symes.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, VT

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
307.76
Library of Congress
HT115 .C585 2010, HT115, HT115 .C585 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 361 p. :
Number of pages
361

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24408794M
ISBN 13
9780754667230
LCCN
2009043769
OCLC/WorldCat
463674568, 987666036

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