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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.

Van Pelt Library HT115 .C585 2010
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Goodson, Caroline.
Lester, Anne E., 1974-
Symes, Carol
Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
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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