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Cities, texts, and social networks, 400-1500 : experiences and perceptions of medieval urban space / edited by Caroline Goodson, Anne E. Lester, and Carol Symes.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns, Medieval.
- City and town life--History--To 1500.
- City and town life.
- Cities and towns, Medieval--History--Sources.
- City and town life--History--To 1500--Sources.
- Social networks--History--To 1500.
- Social networks.
- Space perception--History--To 1500.
- Space perception.
- Religion and sociology--History--To 1500.
- Religion and sociology.
- Charities--History--To 1500.
- Charities.
- Public institutions--History--To 1500.
- Public institutions.
- Human ecology--History--To 1500.
- Human ecology.
- History.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
- Contents:
- 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
- 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, Alizah Holstein
- 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 Alringhaus
- 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 / G. Geltner
- Out in the open, in Arras : sightlines, soundscapes and the shaping of a medieval public sphere / Carol Symes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0754667235
- 9780754667230
- 9781409402619
- 1409402614
- OCLC:
- 463674568
- Publisher Number:
- 99946307448
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