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Locating the Middle Ages - The Spaces and Places of Medieval Culture (Hardcover)
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Locating the Middle Ages - The Spaces and Places of Medieval Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Kings College London Medieval Studies (KCLMS)
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An examination of the ideas of space and place as manifested in
medieval texts, art, and architecture. This interdisciplinary
collection of sixteen essays explores the significance of space and
place in Late Antique and medieval culture, as well as modern
reimaginings of medieval topographies. Its case studies draw on a
wide variety of critical approaches and cover architecture, the
visual arts (painting and manuscript illumination), epic, romance,
historiography, hagiography, cartography, travel writing, as well
as modern English poetry. Challenging simplistic binaries of East
and West, self and other, Muslim and Christian, the volume
addresses the often unexpected roles played by space and place in
the construction of individual and collective identities in
religious and secular domains. The essays move through world spaces
(mappaemundi, the exotic and the mundane East, the Mediterranean);
empires, nations, and frontier zones; cities (Avignon, Jerusalem,
and Reval); and courts, castles and the architectureof
subjectivity, closing with modern visions of the medieval world.
They explore human movement in space and the construction of time
and place in memory. Taking up pressing contemporary issues such as
nationalism, multilingualism, multiculturalism and confessional
relations, they find that medieval material provides narratives
that we can use today in our negotiations with the past. Julian
Weiss is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Studies,
Sarah Salih Senior Lecturer in English, at King's College London.
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Paul Freedman, Sharon Kinoshita,
Luke Sunderland, Julian Weiss, Sarah Salih, Konstantin Klein, Katie
Clark, Elizabeth Monti, Elina Gertsman, Elina Rasanen, Geoff
Rector, Nicolay Ostrau, Andrew Cowell, Joshua Davies, Chris Jones,
Matthew Francis
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