Medieval Practices Of Space

Barbara A. Hanawalt

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2000
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780816691401
• Subtopic: Human Geography
• Index: Social Sciences

Interprets space and place in the medieval era. A glance at medieval maps tells us that cartographers of the Middle Ages divided space differently than we do today. In the great mappae mundi, for instance, Jerusalem takes center stage, with an image of the crucified Christ separating one place from another. The architects of medieval cathedrals manipulated space to clarify the roles and status of all who entered. Even in the most everyday context, space was allotted according to gender and class and was freighted with infinitely subtle meanings. 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. Contributors: Kathleen Biddick, U of Notre Dame; Charles Burroughs, SUNY, Binghamton; Michael Camille, U of Chicago; Tom Conley, Harvard U; Donnalee Dox, U of Arizona; Jody Enders, U of California, Santa Barbara; Valerie K. J. Flint, U of Hull, UK; Andrzej Piotrowski, U of Minnesota; Daniel Lord Smail, Fordham U. Barbara A. Hanawalt is King George III Professor of British History at Ohio State University. Michal Kobialka is associate professor of theatre at University of Minnesota.

Table of contents

• 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