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Urban Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300 (Hardcover)
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Urban Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
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This study offers the first extensive analysis of the function and
significance of urban panegyric in the Central Middle Ages, a
flexible literary genre which enjoyed a marked and renewed
popularity in the period 1100 to 1300. In doing so, it connects the
production of urban panegyric to major underlying transformations
in the medieval city and explores praise of cities primarily in
England, Flanders, France, Germany, Iberia, and Italy (including
the South and Sicily). The volume demonstrates how laudatory ideas
on the city appeared in extremely diverse textual formats which had
the potential to interact with a wide audience via multiple textual
and material sources. When contextualized within the developments
of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries these ideas could reflect
more than formulaic, rhetorical outputs for an educated elite, they
were instead integral to the process of urbanisation. In Urban
Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300,
Paul Oldfield assesses the generation of ideas on the Holy City, on
counter-narratives associated with the Evil City, on the
inter-relationship between the City and abundance (primarily
through discourses on commercial productivity, hinterlands and
population size), on landscapes and sites of power, and on
knowledge generation and the construction of urban histories. Urban
panegyric can enable us to comprehend more deeply material,
functional, and ideological change associated with the city during
a period of notable urbanization, and, importantly, how this change
might have been experienced by contemporaries. This study therefore
highlights the importance of urban panegyric as a product of, and
witness to, a period of substantial urban change. In examining the
laudatory depiction of medieval cities in a thematic analysis it
can contribute to a deeper understanding of civic identity and its
important connection to urban transformation.
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