Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World contains original
essays by five leading scholars in the fields of history, art
history, and literature on the ways in which communities were
imagined and built between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries.
These essays, which function as case studies, range geographically
from Europe to Africa, the Near East to regions of Latin America.
While acknowledging major factors that affect community -- such as
religious belief, imperial expansion, and warfare -- these studies
focus on precise examples and moments in the pre-modern world.
Giles Constable discusses the ways in which monastic vows of
service to God served as the basis for communities of monks in
Europe in the Middle Ages. Anthony Cutler explores the means by
which Byzantine and Islamic communities were created and maintained
through the use of visual and textual signs. Annabel Patterson
draws on visual images and representations to explore how
endangered Catholic communities struggled to survive in Reformation
England. Richard Kagan offers a survey of city images and plans in
the Hispanic world of Europe and the Americas. Pamela Sheingorn
focuses on the attempts of fifteenth-century French theologian Jean
Gerson to reinvent forms of religious community at a time of
crisis. An introduction by Nicholas Howe places this work in its
scholarly context.
The five contributors to this volume reveal the inherent
complexity and variety of communities in the pre-modern world. They
offer a powerful argument against sweeping generalizations about
the ways in which humans form themselves into groups, and encourage
further scholarly research into the ways in which communities are
formed andshaped.
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