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Title

Rural space in the Middle Ages and early modern age : the spatial turn in premodern studies / edited by Albrecht Classen with the collabortaion of Christopher R. Clason.

Publication

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, ©2012.

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Additional Authors

• Classen, Albrecht.
• Clason, Christopher R.

Description

x, 919 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture, 1864-3396 ; 9

Uniform Title

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 9.

Subjects

• Literature, Medieval
• Peasants in literature
• Rural conditions
• Literature
• Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
• Ecocriticism
• Peasants
• European literature > History and criticism
• Rural conditions in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: A Significant Domain Ignored For Too Long by Modern Research? -- Reforming the Monastic Landscape: Peter Damian's Design for Personal and Communal Devotion -- Women's Place and Women's Space in the Medieval Village -- "Gebrochen bluomen unde gras": Medieval Ecological Consciousness in Selected Poems by Walther von der Vogelweide -- 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 -- Rural Space and Agricultural Space in the Old French Fabliaux and the Roman de Renart -- Moor, Court, and River in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi -- Rural Space and Transgressive Space in Bérenger au lonc cul -- Life on the Manor and in Rural Space: Answering the Challenges of Social Decay in William Langland's Piers Plowman -- Landscape of Luxuries: Mahaut d'Artois's (1302-1329) Management and Use of the Park at Hesdin -- Hunting or Gardening: Parks and Royal Rural Space -- The Significance of Rural Space in Guillaume de Palerne -- The Forest as Locus of Transition and Transformation in the Epic Romance Berte as grans piés -- Juan Manuel's Libro de la caza (1325?) -- Hunting as Salvation in Gaston Phébus's Livre de la chasse (1387-1389) -- Rural Space in Late Medieval Books of Hours: Book Illustrations as a Looking Glass Into Medieval Mentality and Mirrors of Ecocriticism -- 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 -- Marshy Spaces in the Middle English Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne: Physical and Spiritual Territory -- Peasant Authors and Peasant Haters: Matazone da Caligano and the Ambiguity of the Satira del villano in High and Late Medieval Italy -- "Lazarus and Abraham, our Jews of Eggenburg": Jews in the Austrian Countryside in the Fourteenth Century -- Small Town, Big Business: A Wealthy Jewish Moneylender in the Austrian Countryside -- Usos rerum rusticarum: Malae consuetudines, male usos lege and Peasant Rebellion as Resistance or Adaptation to Legal Change -- Village People: The Presence of the Rural in Late Medieval French Comedies -- Uprooted Trees and Slaughtered Peasants: The Savaging of Rural Space in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532) -- 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 -- The Poet in Exile: Robert Herrick and the "loathed Country life" -- Women at the Hunt: Developing a Gendered Logic of Rural Space in the Netherlandish Visual Tradition -- "The free Enjoyment of the Earth": Gerrard Winstanley on Land Reform.

Call Number

JFE 15-835

ISBN

• 9783110285369 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 3110285363 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012014418

OCLC

785071799

Title

Rural space in the Middle Ages and early modern age : the spatial turn in premodern studies / edited by Albrecht Classen with the collabortaion of Christopher R. Clason.

Imprint

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, ©2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture, 1864-3396 ; 9

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 9.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Classen, Albrecht.

Clason, Christopher R.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-835