Title Cities, texts, and social networks, 400-1500 : experiences and perceptions of medieval urban space / edited by Caroline Goodson, Anne E. Lester, and Carol Symes

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; PART 1: CONSTRUCTING AND RESTRUCTURING; 2 Writing and Restoration in Rome: Inscriptions, Statues and the Late Antique Preservation of Buildings; 3 How to Found an Islamic City; 4 Metropolitan Architecture, Demographics and the Urban Identity of Paris in the Thirteenth Century; PART 2: TOPOGRAPHIES AS TEXTS; 5 The Meaning of Topography in Umayyad Córdoba; 6 Crafting a Charitable Landscape: Urban Topographies in Charters and Testaments from Medieval Champagne 7 Anger and Spectacle in Late Medieval Rome: Gauging Emotion in Urban Topography; PART 3: CITIZENS AND SAINTS; 8 Local Sanctity and Civic Typology in Early Medieval Pavia: The Example of the Cult of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny; 9 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; 10 The Myth of Urban Unity: Religion and Social Performance in Late Medieval Braunschweig; PART 4: AGENCY AND AUTHORITY; 11 City as Charter: Charity and the Lordship of English Towns, 1170-1250 12 'The Best Place in the World': Imaging Urban Prisons in Late Medieval Italy; 13 Out in the Open, in Arras: Sightlines, Soundscapes and the Shaping of a Medieval Public Sphere; Bibliography; Index Notes "First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing"--Title page verso Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-352) and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 4, 2021) Subject Cities and towns, Medieval. City and town life -- History -- To 1500 Cities and towns, Medieval -- History -- Sources City and town life -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources Social networks -- History -- To 1500 Space perception -- History -- To 1500 Religion and sociology -- History -- To 1500 Charities -- History -- To 1500 Public institutions -- History -- To 1500 Human ecology -- History -- To 1500 Cities and towns, Medieval -- Sources SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. HISTORY -- Europe -- Medieval. Charities Cities and towns, Medieval City and town life Human ecology Public institutions Religion and sociology Social networks Space perception Genre/Form Electronic books History Sources Form Electronic book Author Symes, Carol, editor. Lester, Anne Elisabeth, 1974- editor. Goodson, Caroline, editor. ISBN 9781317165941 1317165942 9781315572130 1315572133 9781317165927 1317165926

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