Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

Published by De Gruyter 2009

Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

Edited by: Albrecht Classen

Volume 4 in the series Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223903

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Although the city as a central entity did not simply disappear with the Fall of the Roman Empire, the development of urban space at least since the twelfth century played a major role in the history of medieval and early modern mentality within a social-economic and religious framework. Whereas some poets projected urban space as a new utopia, others simply reflected the new significance of the urban environment as a stage where their characters operate very successfully. As today, the premodern city was the locus where different social groups and classes got together, sometimes peacefully, sometimes in hostile terms. The historical development of the relationship between Christians and Jews, for instance, was deeply determined by the living conditions within a city. By the late Middle Ages, nobility and bourgeoisie began to intermingle within the urban space, which set the stage for dramatic and far-reaching changes in the social and economic make-up of society. Legal-historical aspects also find as much consideration as practical questions concerning water supply and sewer systems. Moreover, the early modern city within the Ottoman and Middle Eastern world likewise finds consideration. Finally, as some contributors observe, the urban space provided considerable opportunities for women to carve out a niche for themselves in economic terms.

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Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

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Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: Historical, Mental, Cultural, and Social Economic Investigations Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Dead and the Living: Some Medieval Descriptions of the Ruins and Relics of Rome Known to the English C. David Benson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Defining the Medieval City through Death: A Case Study Kisha G. Tracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
The Demographics of Urban Space in Crusade Period Jerusalem (1099–1187) Alan V. Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Hereditary Laws and City Topography: On the Development of the Italian Notarial Archives in the Late Middle Ages Andreas Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
“A reuer . . . brighter þen boþe the sunne and mone”: The Use of Water in the Medieval Consideration of Urban Space Britt C. L. Rothauser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Jews and the City: Parameters of Jewish Urban Life in Late Medieval Austria Birgit Wiedl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Next Door Neighbors: Aspects of Judeo Christian Cohabitation in Medieval France Rosa Alvarez Perez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Universal Salvation in the Earthly City: De Civitate Dei and the Significance of the Hazelnut in Julian of Norwich’s Showings Jeanette S. Zissell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
“With Teeth Clenched and an Angry Face:” Vengeance, Visitors and Judicial Power in Fourteenth-Century France Patricia Turning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
Urban and Liminal Space in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale: Perilous or Protective? Jean E. Jost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Imagining Urban Life and Its Discontents: Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale and Masculine Identity Daniel F. Pigg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Women, Men, and Markets: The Gendering of Market Space in Late Medieval Ghent Shennan Hutton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
Anger and the City: Who Was in Charge of the Paris cabochien Revolt of 1413? Lia B. Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
“The Merchants of My Florence”: A Socio Political Complaint from 1457 Fabian Alfie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
Urban Space Divided? The Encounter of Civic and Courtly Spheres in Late Medieval Towns Jan Hirschbiegel and Gabriel Zeilinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
Urban Literary Entertainment in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: The Example of Tyrol Klaus Amann and Max Siller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
Urban Spaces in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea Connie Scarborough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	537
Hans Sachs and his Encomia Songs on German Cities: Zooming Into and Out of Urban Space from a Poetic Perspective. With a Consideration of Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493) Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	567
Urban Space as Social Conscience in Isabella Whitney’s “Wyll and Testament” Marilyn Sandidge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	595
Waqf and its Influence on the Built Environment in the Medina of the Islamic Middle Eastern City Michael E. Bonine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	615
The Role of Imperial Mosque Complexes (1543-1583) in the Urbanization of Üsküdar Pınar Kayaalp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	645
Early Modern Dutch Women in the City: The Imaging of Economic Agency and Power Martha Moffitt Peacock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	667
Sewers, Cesspools, and Privies: Waste as Reality and Metaphor in Pre modern European Cities Allison P. Coudert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	713
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	735

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 757
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 70
Keywords: Urbanization; Urban History; Urban Life

eBook

Published: December 15, 2009
ISBN: 9783110223903

Hardcover

Published: October 16, 2009
ISBN: 9783110223897