Space in the Medieval West : places, territories, and imagined geographies / edited by Meredith Cohen, Fanny Madeline.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Meredith, editor.

Madeline, Fanny, editor.

ebrary, Inc.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval.

Space (Architecture)--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500.

Space (Architecture).

Space (Architecture)--Social aspects.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 245 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction / Meredith Cohen, Fanny Madeline, and Dominique Iogna-Prat

Squarely built : an inquiry into the sources of "ad quadratum" geometry in Lombard architecture between the eleventh and the twelfth centuries / Emanuele Lugli

The geometry of rib vaulting at Notre-Dame of Paris : architectural or exegetical space? / Stefaan van Liefferinge

Gothic drawing and the shaping of space / Robert Bork

Marking the city for Christ : spatiality and the invention of Utrecht's medieval cross of churches / David Ross Winter

From plebs to parochia : the perception of the church in space from the ninth to the twelfth century (Dioceses of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo) / Anne Lunven, translated from the French by Emanuele Lugli

New masters of space : the creation of communication networks in the West (eleventh-twelfth centuries) / Thomas Wetzstein, translated from the French by Raeleen Chai-Elsholz

Inventing legal space : from regional custom to common law in the Coutumiers of Medieval France / Ada-Maria Kuskowski

The image of France in the Beatus Map of Saint-Sever / Sandra Saènz Lopez Perez

France in the two geographical works of al-Idrīsī (Sicily, twelfth century) / Jean-Charles Ducène, translated from the French by Robert Bork

From Gaul to the Kingdom of France : representations of French space in geographical texts of the Middle Ages (twelfth-fifteenth centuries) / Nathalie Bouloux, translated from the French by Katherine Bork

The definition and boundaries of eucharistic space in the Grail prose romances : focalization and dissemination / Catheirne Nicolas, translated from the French by Raeleen Chai-Elsholz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781409453024

1409453022

Publisher Number:

99960084597

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.