Urban space in the middle ages and the early modern age
By: edited by Albrecht Classen.
Contributors: Classen, Albrecht.
Series: Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture -- 4
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110223897
Subjects: Urbanization -- History; Cities and towns -- Growth -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Urban space in the middle ages and the early modern age : historical, mental, cultural, and social-economic investigations / C. David Benson; title: The dead and the living : some medieval descriptions of the ruins and relics of Rome known to the English / Kisha G. Tracy; title: Defining the medieval city through death : a case study / Alan V. Murray; title: The demographics of urban space in Crusade-period Jerusalem (1099-1187) / Andreas Meyer; title: Hereditary laws and city topography : on the development of the Italian notarial archives in the late middle ages / Britt C. L. Rothauser; title: "A reuer . . . brighter þen boþe the sunne and mone" : the use of water in the medieval consideration of urban space / Birgit Wiedl; title: Jews and the city : parameters of Jewish urban life in late medieval Austria / Rosa Alvarez Perez; title: Next-door neighbors : aspects of Judeo-Christian cohabitation in medieval France / Jeanette S. Zissell; title: Universal salvation in the earthly city : de civitate dei and the significance of the hazelnut in Julian of Norwich's Showings / Patricia Turning; title: "With teeth clenched and an angry face" : vengeance, visitors, and judicial power in fourteenth-century France / Jean E. Jost; title: Urban and liminal space in Chaucer's Knight's tale : perilous or protective? / Daniel F. Pigg; title: Imagining urban life and its discontents : Chaucer's cook's tale and masculine identity / Shennan Hutton; title: Women, men, and markets : the gendering of market space in late medieval Ghent / Lia B. Ross; title: Anger and the city : who was in charge of the Paris Cabochien revolt of 1413? / Fabian Alfie; title: "The merchants of my Florence" : a socio-political complaint from 1457 / Jan Hirschbiegel and Gabriel Zeilinger; title: Urban space divided? the encounter of civic and courtly spheres in late-medieval towns / Klaus Amann and Max Siller; title: Urban literary entertainment in the middle ages and the early modern age : the example of Tyrol / Connie Scarborough; title: Urban spaces in the tragicomedia de calisto y melibea / Albrecht Classen; title: 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) / Marilyn Sandidge; title: Urban space as social conscience in Isabella Whitney's "Wyll and testament" / Michael E. Bonine; title: Waqf and its influence on the built environment in the medina of the Islamic middle eastern city / Pýnar Kayaalp; title: The role of imperial mosque complexes (1543-1583) in the urbanization of Uesküdar / Martha Moffitt Peacock; title: Early modern Dutch women in the city : the imaging of economic agency and power / Allison P. Coudert; title: Sewers, cesspools, and privies : waste as reality and metaphor in pre-modern European cities.