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Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
The Spatial Turn in Premodern Studies
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Edited by:
Albrecht Classen
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In collaboration with:
Christopher R. Clason
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English
Published/Copyright:
2012
About this book
Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to consider the meaning of rural space, both in light of ecocritical readings and social-historical approaches. While previous scholars examined the figure of the peasant in the premodern world, the current volume combines a large number of specialized studies that investigate how the natural environment and the appearance of members of the rural population interacted with the world of the court and of the city. The experience in rural space was important already for writers and artists in the premodern era, as the large variety of scholarly approaches indicates. The present volume signals how much the surprisingly close interaction between members of the aristocratic and of the peasant class determined many literary and art-historical works. In a surprisingly large number of cases we can even discover elements of utopia hidden in rural space. We also observe how much the rural world was a significant element already in early-medieval mentality. Moreover, as many authors point out, the impact of natural forces on premodern society was tremendous, if not catastrophic.
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Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, USA.
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Introduction. Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: A Significant Domain Ignored For Too Long by Modern Research?
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Chapter 1. Reforming the Monastic Landscape: Peter Damian’s Design for Personal and Communal Devotion
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Chapter 2. Women’s Place and Women’s Space in the Medieval Village
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Chapter 3. “Gebrochen bluomen unde gras”: Medieval Ecological Consciousness in Selected Poems by Walther von der Vogelweide
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Chapter 4. Utopian Space in the Countryside: Love and Marriage between a Knight and a Peasant Girl in Medieval German Literature. Hartmann von Aue’s Der arme Heinrich, Anonymous, “Dis ist von dem Heselin,” Walther von der Vogelweide, Oswald von Wolkenstein, and LateMedieval Popular Poetry
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Chapter 5. Rural Space and Agricultural Space in the Old French Fabliaux and the Roman de Renart
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Chapter 6. Moor, Court, and River in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi
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Chapter 7. Rural Space and Transgressive Space in Bérenger au lonc cul
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Chapter 8. Life on the Manor and in Rural Space: Answering the Challenges of Social Decay in William Langland’s Piers Plowman
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Chapter 9. Landscape of Luxuries: Mahaut d’Artois’s (1302–1329) Management and Use of the Park at Hesdin
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Chapter 10. Hunting or Gardening: Parks and Royal Rural Space
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Chapter 11. The Significance of Rural Space in Guillaume de Palerne
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Chapter 12. The Forest as Locus of Transition and Transformation in the Epic Romance Berte as grans piés
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Chapter 13. Juan Manuel’s Libro de la caza (1325?)
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Chapter 14. Hunting as Salvation in Gaston Phébus’s Livre de la chasse (1387–1389)
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Chapter 15. Rural Space in Late Medieval Books of Hours: Book Illustrations as a LookingGlass Into Medieval Mentality and Mirrors of Ecocriticism
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Chapter 16. The Tame Wilderness of Princes: Images of Nature in Exemplars of Books of Hours and in the Livre du Coeur d’amour épris of King René of Anjou
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Chapter 17. Marshy Spaces in the Middle English Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne: Physical and Spiritual Territory
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Chapter 18. Peasant Authors and Peasant Haters: Matazone da Caligano and the Ambiguity of the Satira del villano in High and Late Medieval Italy
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Chapter 19. “Lazarus and Abraham, our Jews of Eggenburg”: Jews in the Austrian Countryside in the Fourteenth Century
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Chapter 20. Small Town, Big Business: A Wealthy Jewish Moneylender in the Austrian Countryside
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Chapter 21. Usos rerum rusticarum: Malae consuetudines, male usos lege and Peasant Rebellion as Resistance or Adaptation to Legal Change
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Chapter 22. Village People: The Presence of the Rural in Late Medieval French Comedies
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Chapter 23. Uprooted Trees and Slaughtered Peasants: The Savaging of Rural Space in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1532)
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Chapter 24. Representations of the Plowman and the Prostitute in Puritan and AntiPuritan Satire: Or the Rhetoric of Plainness and the Reformation of the Popular in the Harvey Nashe Quarrel
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Chapter 25. The Poet in Exile: Robert Herrick and the “loathed Countrylife”
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Chapter 26. Women at the Hunt: Developing a Gendered Logic of Rural Space in the Netherlandish Visual Tradition
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Chapter 27. “The free Enjoyment of the Earth”: Gerrard Winstanley on Land Reform
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List of Illustrations
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Contributors
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Index
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eBook published on:
May 29, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9783110285420
Hardcover published on:
May 18, 2012
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110285369
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
930
Illustrations:
45
Audience(s) for this book
Academics (Medieval Studies), Institutes, Libraries
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