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Title Medieval practices of space / Barbara A. Hanawalt, Michal Kobialka, editors
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages) : illustrations
Series Medieval cultures ; v. 23
Medieval cultures ; v. 23.
Contents Signs of the city : place, power, and public fantasy in medieval Paris / Michael Camille -- Linguistic cartography of property and power in late medieval Marseille / Daniel Lord Smail -- Spaces of arbitration and the organization of space in late medieval Italian cities / Charles Burroughs -- Architecture and the iconoclastic controversy / Andrzej Piotrowski -- Staging place/space in the eleventh-century monastic practices / Michal Kobialka -- Space and discipline in early medieval Europe / Valerie I.J. Flint -- Theatrical space, mutable space, and the space of imagination : three readings of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament / Donnalee Dox -- Dramatic memories and tortured spaces in the Mistere de la Sainte Hostie / Jody Enders / Becoming collection : the spatial afterlife of medieval universal histories / Kathleen Biddick -- Poetic mapping : on Villon's "Contredictz de Franc Gontier" / Tom Conley
Summary 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
Notes Papers from a conference held in April 1997
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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.
Literature, Medieval
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Civilization, Medieval
Literature, Medieval
Public spaces
Space and time in literature
Space and time -- Psychological aspects
Space and time -- Religious aspects
Space and time -- Social aspects
Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects
Visual perception in literature
Ruimte (algemeen)
Sociale aspecten.
Letterkunde.
Middeleeuwen.
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hanawalt, Barbara A., 1941-
Kobialka, Michal
ISBN 9780816691401
0816691401