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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820859103321

Titolo

Medieval practices of space / / Barbara A. Hanawalt, Michal Kobialka, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8166-9140-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Medieval cultures ; ; v. 23

Altri autori (Persone)

HanawaltBarbara

KobialkaMichal

Disciplina

307

Soggetti

Civilization, Medieval

Space (Architecture) - Social aspects - Europe - History - To 1500

Public spaces - Europe - History - To 1500

Space and time - Social aspects - Europe - History - To 1500

Space and time - Religious aspects

Space and time - Psychological aspects

Literature, Medieval

Space and time in literature

Visual perception in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a conference held in April 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Signs of the City: Place, Power, and Public Fantasy in Medieval Paris -- 2. The Linguistic Cartography of Property and Power in Late Medieval Marseille -- 3. Spaces of Arbitration and the Organization of Space in Late Medieval Italian Cities -- 4. Architecture and the Iconoclastic Controversy -- 5. Staging Place/Space in the Eleventh-Century Monastic Practices -- 6. Space and Discipline in Early Medieval Europe -- 7. Theatrical Space, Mutable Space, and the Space of Imagination: Three Readings of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament -- 8. Dramatic Memories and Tortured Spaces in the Mistere de la Sainte Hostie -- 9. Becoming Collection: The Spatial Afterlife of Medieval Universal Histories -- 10. Poetic Mapping: On Villon's "Contredictz de Franc Gontier -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G --



H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

The contributors to this volume cross disciplinary and theoretical boundaries to read the words, metaphors, images, signs, poetic illusions, and identities with which medieval men and women used space and place to add meaning to the world