Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: The Spatial Turn in Premodern Studies

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Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

The Spatial Turn in Premodern Studies

Edited by: Albrecht Classen
In collaboration with: Christopher R. Clason

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2012

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Volume 9 | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	i
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Introduction. Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: A Significant Domain Ignored For Too Long by Modern Research? Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Chapter 1. Reforming the Monastic Landscape: Peter Damian’s Design for Personal and Communal Devotion Kathryn L. Jasper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
Chapter 2. Women’s Place and Women’s Space in the Medieval Village Sherri Olson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
Chapter 3. “Gebrochen bluomen unde gras”: Medieval Ecological Consciousness in Selected Poems by Walther von der Vogelweide Christopher R. Clason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
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 Late􀈬Medieval Popular Poetry Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
Chapter 5. Rural Space and Agricultural Space in the Old French Fabliaux and the Roman de Renart Sarah Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
Chapter 6. Moor, Court, and River in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi Andrew Breeze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
Chapter 7. Rural Space and Transgressive Space in Bérenger au lonc cul Penny Simons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
Chapter 8. Life on the Manor and in Rural Space: Answering the Challenges of Social Decay in William Langland’s Piers Plowman Daniel F. Pigg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	351
Chapter 9. Landscape of Luxuries: Mahaut d’Artois’s (1302–1329) Management and Use of the Park at Hesdin Abigail P. Dowling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	367
Chapter 10. Hunting or Gardening: Parks and Royal Rural Space Marilyn L. Sandidge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	389
Chapter 11. The Significance of Rural Space in Guillaume de Palerne Penny Simons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	407
Chapter 12. The Forest as Locus of Transition and Transformation in the Epic Romance Berte as grans piés Rosa A. Perez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433
Chapter 13. Juan Manuel’s Libro de la caza (1325?) Maria Cecilia Ruiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	451
Chapter 14. Hunting as Salvation in Gaston Phébus’s Livre de la chasse (1387–1389) Jacqueline Stuhmiller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	505
Chapter 15. Rural Space in Late Medieval Books of Hours: Book Illustrations as a Looking􀈬Glass Into Medieval Mentality and Mirrors of Ecocriticism Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	529
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 Lia B. Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	561
Chapter 17. Marshy Spaces in the Middle English Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne: Physical and Spiritual Territory Jean E. Jost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	589
Chapter 18. Peasant Authors and Peasant Haters: Matazone da Caligano and the Ambiguity of the Satira del villano in High and Late Medieval Italy Nicolino Applauso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	607
Chapter 19. “Lazarus and Abraham, our Jews of Eggenburg”: Jews in the Austrian Countryside in the Fourteenth Century Birgit Wiedl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	639
Chapter 20. Small Town, Big Business: A Wealthy Jewish Moneylender in the Austrian Countryside Eveline Brugger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	673
Chapter 21. Usos rerum rusticarum: Malae consuetudines, male usos lege and Peasant Rebellion as Resistance or Adaptation to Legal Change Scott L. Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	685
Chapter 22. Village People: The Presence of the Rural in Late􀈬 Medieval French Comedies Sharon D. King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	703
Chapter 23. Uprooted Trees and Slaughtered Peasants: The Savaging of Rural Space in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1532) Elizabeth Chesney Zegura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	729
Chapter 24. Representations of the Plowman and the Prostitute in Puritan and Anti􀈬Puritan Satire: Or the Rhetoric of Plainness and the Reformation of the Popular in the Harvey Nashe Quarrel Kyle DiRoberto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	755
Chapter 25. The Poet in Exile: Robert Herrick and the “loathed Country􀈬life” Jessica Tvordi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	795
Chapter 26. Women at the Hunt: Developing a Gendered Logic of Rural Space in the Netherlandish Visual Tradition Martha Moffitt Peacock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	819
Chapter 27. “The free Enjoyment of the Earth”: Gerrard Winstanley on Land Reform Thomas Willard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	865
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	891
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	895
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	905

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eBook published on:

May 29, 2012

eBook ISBN:

9783110285420

Hardcover published on:

May 18, 2012

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110285369

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930

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45

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110285420

eBook ISBN: 9783110285420

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110285369

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Rural Space; Middle Ages; Early Modern Age; Medieval Culture

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Academics (Medieval Studies), Institutes, Libraries

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