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Title:

Urban space in the middle ages and the early modern age / edited by Albrecht Classen.

Publisher:

Walter de Gruyter,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

vii, 757 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Urbanization--History.
Cities and towns--History.--History.
Geschichte 500-1700
Geschichte 500-1900

Other Authors:

Classen, Albrecht

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Contents:

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

Series:

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 4

ISBN:

3110223899 (alk. paper)
9783110223897 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)426147261

LCCN:

2009027975

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)