The Dead and the Living: Some Medieval Descriptions of the Ruins and Relics of Rome Known to the English

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: Historical, Mental, Cultural, and Social Economic Investigations 1
4. The Dead and the Living: Some Medieval Descriptions of the Ruins and Relics of Rome Known to the English 147
5. Defining the Medieval City through Death: A Case Study 183
6. The Demographics of Urban Space in Crusade Period Jerusalem (1099–1187) 205
7. Hereditary Laws and City Topography: On the Development of the Italian Notarial Archives in the Late Middle Ages 225
8. “A reuer . . . brighter þen boþe the sunne and mone”: The Use of Water in the Medieval Consideration of Urban Space 245
9. Jews and the City: Parameters of Jewish Urban Life in Late Medieval Austria 273
10. Next Door Neighbors: Aspects of Judeo Christian Cohabitation in Medieval France 309
11. Universal Salvation in the Earthly City: De Civitate Dei and the Significance of the Hazelnut in Julian of Norwich’s Showings 331
12. “With Teeth Clenched and an Angry Face:” Vengeance, Visitors and Judicial Power in Fourteenth-Century France 353
13. Urban and Liminal Space in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale: Perilous or Protective? 373
14. Imagining Urban Life and Its Discontents: Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale and Masculine Identity 395
15. Women, Men, and Markets: The Gendering of Market Space in Late Medieval Ghent 409
16. Anger and the City: Who Was in Charge of the Paris cabochien Revolt of 1413? 433
17. “The Merchants of My Florence”: A Socio Political Complaint from 1457 463
18. Urban Space Divided? The Encounter of Civic and Courtly Spheres in Late Medieval Towns 481
19. Urban Literary Entertainment in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: The Example of Tyrol 505
20. Urban Spaces in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea 537
21. Hans Sachs and his Encomia Songs on German Cities: Zooming Into and Out of Urban Space from a Poetic Perspective. With a Consideration of Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493) 567
22. Urban Space as Social Conscience in Isabella Whitney’s “Wyll and Testament” 595
23. Waqf and its Influence on the Built Environment in the Medina of the Islamic Middle Eastern City 615
24. The Role of Imperial Mosque Complexes (1543-1583) in the Urbanization of Üsküdar 645
25. Early Modern Dutch Women in the City: The Imaging of Economic Agency and Power 667
26. Sewers, Cesspools, and Privies: Waste as Reality and Metaphor in Pre modern European Cities 713
27. Backmatter 735