Locating the Middle Ages - The Spaces and Places of Medieval Culture

An examination of the ideas of space and place as manifested in medieval texts, art, and architecture.

List of contents

Peutinger's Map Before Peutinger: Circulation and Impact, AD 300-1500 - Richard Talbert
Locating the Exotic - Paul Freedman
Locating the Medieval Mediterranean - Sharon Kinoshita
Multilingualism and Empire in L'Entrée d'Espagne - Luke Sunderland
Remembering Spain in the Medieval European Epic: A Prospect - Julian Weiss
Lydgate's Landscape History - Sarah Salih
The Politics of Holy Space: Jerusalem in the Theodosian Era (379-457 CE) - Konstantin Klein
Redefining Space in Early Fourteenth-Century Avignon: The St-Etienne Episode
Locating Legitimacy: Architectural Patronage in Schismatic Avignon
Locating the Body in Late Medieval Revival - Elina Gertsman
Literary Leisure and the Architectural Spaces of Early Anglo-Norman Literature - Geoff Rector
Enclosures of Love: Locating Emotion in the Arthurian Romances Yvain/Iwein - Nicolay Ostrau
The Subjectivity of Space: Walls and Castles in La Prise d'Orange - Andrew Cowell
Relocating Anglo-Saxon England: Places of the Past in Basil Bunting's Briggflatts and Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns - Joshua Davies
Recycling Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Richard Wilbur's `Junk' and a Self Study - C S Jones
Rewriting Mandeville's Travels - Matthew Francis

About the author

Julian Weiss, Sarah Salih

Summary

An examination of the ideas of space and place as manifested in medieval texts, art, and architecture.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Salih, Julian Weiss
• Assisted by: Sarah Salih (Editor), Sarah (Contributor) Salih (Editor), Julian Weiss (Editor)
• Publisher: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2012
• EAN: 9780953983872
• ISBN: 978-0-9539838-7-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 237 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 752 g
• Illustrations: 20 colour, 3 b/w illus.
• Series: King's College London Mediaeval Studies S.; Kings College London Medieval Studies (KCLMS); Kings College London Medieval; Kings College London Medieval Studies (KCLMS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries