Urban space in the middle ages and the early modern age / edited by Albrecht Classen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Classen, Albrecht.

Series:

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 4.

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--History.

Urbanization.

History.

Cities and towns--Growth--History.

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns--Growth.

Physical Description:

vii, 757 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2009]

Contents:

Urban space in the middle ages and the early modern age : historical, mental, cultural, and social-economic investigations / Albrecht Classen

The dead and the living : some medieval descriptions of the ruins and relics of Rome known to the English / C. David Benson

Defining the medieval city through death : a case study / Kisha G. Tracy

The demographics of urban space in Crusade-period Jerusalem (1099-1187) / Alan V. Murray

Hereditary laws and city topography : on the development of the Italian notarial archives in the late middle ages / Andreas Meyer

"A reuer

brighter þen boþe the sunne and mone" : the use of water in the medieval consideration of urban space / Britt C.L. Rothauser

Jews and the city : parameters of Jewish urban life in late medieval Austria / Birgit Wiedl

Next-door neighbors : aspects of Judeo-Christian cohabitation in medieval France / Rosa Alvarez Perez

Universal salvation in the earthly city : de civitate dei and the significance of the hazelnut in Julian of Norwich's Showings / Jeanette S. Zissell

"With teeth clenched and an angry face" : vengeance, visitors and judicial power in fourteenth-century France / Patricia Turning

Urban and liminal space in Chaucer's Knight's tale : perilous or protective? / Jean E. Jost

Imagining urban life and its discontents : Chaucer's Cook's tale and masculine identity / Daniel F. Pigg

Women, men, and markets : the gendering of market space in late medieval Ghent / Shennan Hutton

Anger and the city : who was in charge of the Paris cabochien revolt of 1413? / Lia B. Ross

"The merchants of my Florence" : a socio-political complaint from 1457 / Fabian Alfie

Urban space divided? The encounter of civic and courtly spheres in late-medieval towns / Jan Hirschbiegel and Gabriel Zeilinger

Urban literary entertainment in the middle ages and the early modern age : the example of Tyrol / Klaus Amann and Max Siller

Urban spaces in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea / Connie Scarborough

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) / Albrecht Classen

Urban space as social conscience in Isabella Whitney's "Wyll and testament" / Marilyn Sandidge

Waqf and its influence on the built environment in the medina of the Islamic middle eastern city / Michael E. Bonine

The role of imperial mosque complexes (1543-1583) in the urbanization of Üsküdar / Pýnar Kayaalp

Early modern Dutch women in the city : the imaging of economic agency and power / Martha Moffitt Peacock

Sewers, cesspools, and privies : waste as reality and metaphor in pre-modern European cities / Allison P. Coudert .

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9783110223897

3110223899

OCLC:

426147261