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.

Cities and towns--Growth--History.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (768 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although the city as a central entity did not simply disappear with the Fall of the Roman Empire, the development of urban space at least since the twelfth century played a major role in the history of medieval and early modern mentality within a social-economic and religious framework. Whereas some poets projected urban space as a new utopia, others simply reflected the new significance of the urban environment as a stage where their characters operate very successfully. As today, the premodern city was the locus where different social groups and classes got together, sometimes peacefully, sometimes in hostile terms. The historical development of the relationship between Christians and Jews, for instance, was deeply determined by the living conditions within a city. By the late Middle Ages, nobility and bourgeoisie began to intermingle within the urban space, which set the stage for dramatic and far-reaching changes in the social and economic make-up of society. Legal-historical aspects also find as much consideration as practical questions concerning water supply and sewer systems. Moreover, the early modern city within the Ottoman and Middle Eastern world likewise finds consideration. Finally, as some contributors observe, the urban space provided considerable opportunities for women to carve out a niche for themselves in economic terms.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: Historical, Mental, Cultural, and Social Economic Investigations

The Dead and the Living: Some Medieval Descriptions of the Ruins and Relics of Rome Known to the English

Defining the Medieval City through Death: A Case Study

The Demographics of Urban Space in Crusade Period Jerusalem (1099-1187)

Hereditary Laws and City Topography: On the Development of the Italian Notarial Archives in the Late Middle Ages

"A reuer . . . brighter þen boþe the sunne and mone": The Use of Water in the Medieval Consideration of Urban Space

Jews and the City: Parameters of Jewish Urban Life in Late Medieval Austria

Next Door Neighbors: Aspects of Judeo Christian Cohabitation in Medieval France

Universal Salvation in the Earthly City: De Civitate Dei and the Significance of the Hazelnut in Julian of Norwich's Showings

"With Teeth Clenched and an Angry Face:" Vengeance, Visitors and Judicial Power in Fourteenth-Century France

Urban and Liminal Space in Chaucer's Knight's Tale: Perilous or Protective?

Imagining Urban Life and Its Discontents: Chaucer's Cook's Tale and Masculine Identity

Women, Men, and Markets: The Gendering of Market Space in Late Medieval Ghent

Anger and the City: Who Was in Charge of the Paris cabochien Revolt of 1413?

"The Merchants of My Florence": A Socio Political Complaint from 1457

Urban Space Divided? The Encounter of Civic and Courtly Spheres in Late Medieval Towns

Urban Literary Entertainment in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: The Example of Tyrol

Urban Spaces in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea

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)

Urban Space as Social Conscience in Isabella Whitney's "Wyll and Testament"

Waqf and its Influence on the Built Environment in the Medina of the Islamic Middle Eastern City

The Role of Imperial Mosque Complexes (1543-1583) in the Urbanization of Üsküdar

Early Modern Dutch Women in the City: The Imaging of Economic Agency and Power

Sewers, Cesspools, and Privies: Waste as Reality and Metaphor in Pre modern European Cities

Backmatter

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612456794

9781282456792

1282456792

9783110223903

3110223902

OCLC:

593273869