Locating the Middle Ages - The Spaces and Places of Medieval Culture (Hardcover)

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

General

Imprint:	King's College London, Centre for Late Antique and
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Kings College London Medieval Studies (KCLMS)
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	2012
Editors:	Julian Weiss • Sarah Salih (Contributor)
Contributors:	Andrew Cowell (Author) • Chris Jones (ESRR Professor of English) • Elina Gertsman (Author) • Geoff Rector (Contributor) • Joshua Davies • Julian Weiss • Konstantin Klein • Luke Sunderland
Dimensions:	241 x 162 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	250
ISBN-13:	978-0-9539838-7-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
LSN:	0-9539838-7-0
Barcode:	9780953983872

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