Cities, texts, and social networks, 400-1500
Subtitle: experiences and perceptions of medieval urban space
By: Caroline Goodson, Anne E. Lester, and Carol Symes.
Contributors: Lester, Anne Elisabeth, 1974-; Symes, Carol.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754667230; 9781409402619
Subjects: 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
Genres: Sources
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Caroline J. Goodson, Anne E. Lester, and Carol Symes; title: Constructing and restructuring; title: Writing and restoration in Rome : inscriptions, statues, and the late antique preservation of buildings / Gregor Kalas; title: How to found an Islamic city / Hugh Kennedy; title: Metropolitan architecture, demographics, and the urban identity of Paris in the thirteenth century / Meredith Cohen; title: Topographies as texts; title: The meaning of topography in Umayyad Córdoba / Ann Christys; title: Crafting a charitable landscape : urban topographies in charters and testaments from medieval Champagne / Anne E. Lester; title: Anger and spectacle in late medieval Rome : gauging emotion in urban topography / Joëlle Rollo-Koster and Alizah Holstein; title: Citizens and saints; title: Local sanctity and civic typology in early medieval Pavia : the example of the cult of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny / Scott G. Bruce; title: 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; title: The myth of urban unity : religion and social performance in late medieval Braunschweig / Franz-Josef Arlinghaus; title: Agency and authority; title: City as charter : charity and the lordship of English towns, 1170-1250 / Sethina Watson; title: "The best place in the world" : imaging urban prisons in late medieval Italy / Guy Geltner; title: Out in the open, in Arras : sightlines, soundscapes, and the shaping of a medieval public sphere / Carol Symes.