Urban space in the Middle Ages and the early modern age

Weitere Verfasser: Classen, Albrecht.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
Umfang/Format: vii, 757 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 4
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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 boe 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 Uskudar / Pynar 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.