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Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 400-1500 - Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 400-1500 - Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban
life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth
century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim
Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus, England, the territories of medieval
Francia, Flanders, the Low Countries, Italy and Germany. Together,
the volume's contributors move beyond attempts to define 'the city'
in purely legal, economic or religious terms. Instead, they focus
on modes of organisation, representation and identity formation
that shaped the ways urban spaces were called into being, used and
perceived. Their interdisciplinary analyses place narrative and
archival sources in communication with topography, the built
environment and evidence of sensory stimuli in order to capture
sights, sounds, physical proximities and power structures. Paying
close attention to the delineation of public and private spaces,
and secular and sacred precincts, each chapter explores the
workings of power and urban discourse and their effects on the
making of meaning. The volume as a whole engages theoretical
discussions of urban space - its production, consumption, memory
and meaning - which too frequently misrepresent the evidence of the
Middle Ages. It argues that the construction and use of medieval
urban spaces could foster the emergence of medieval 'public
spheres' that were fundamental components and by-products of
pre-modern urban life. The resulting collection contributes to
longstanding debates among historians while tackling fundamental
questions regarding medieval society and the ways it is understood
today. Many of these questions will resonate with scholars of
postcolonial or 'non-Western' cultures whose sources and cities
have been similarly marginalized in discussions of urban space and
experience. And because these essays reflect a considerable
geographical, temporal and methodological scope, they model
approaches to the study of urban history that will interest a wide
range of readers.
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