Cities, texts, and social networks, 400-1500 : experiences and perceptions of medieval urban space /
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Caroline J. Goodson, Anne E. Lester, and Carol Symes
- Constructing and restructuring
- Writing and restoration in Rome : inscriptions, statues, and the late antique preservation of buildings / Gregor Kalas
- How to found an Islamic city / Hugh Kennedy
- Metropolitan architecture, demographics, and the urban identity of Paris in the thirteenth century / Meredith Cohen
- Topographies as texts
- The meaning of topography in Umayyad Córdoba / Ann Christys
- Crafting a charitable landscape : urban topographies in charters and testaments from medieval Champagne / Anne E. Lester
- Anger and spectacle in late medieval Rome : gauging emotion in urban topography / Joëlle Rollo-Koster and Alizah Holstein
- Citizens and saints
- Local sanctity and civic typology in early medieval Pavia : the example of the cult of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny / Scott G. Bruce
- Cities and their saints in England, circa 1150-1300 : the development of bourgeois values in the cults of Saint William of York and Saint Kenelm of Winchcombe / Sarah Rees Jones
- The myth of urban unity : religion and social performance in late medieval Braunschweig / Franz-Josef Arlinghaus
- Agency and authority
- City as charter : charity and the lordship of English towns, 1170-1250 / Sethina Watson
- "The best place in the world" : imaging urban prisons in late medieval Italy / Guy Geltner
- Out in the open, in Arras : sightlines, soundscapes, and the shaping of a medieval public sphere / Carol Symes.