Item Number: 128817 Title: Space in the Medieval West : Places, Territories and Imagined Geographies Author: Cohen, Meredith ; Fanny Madeline (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781409453017 Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 245pp., 17 illus., 15 maps. Contents: Introduction, Meredith Cohen, Fanny Madeline and Dominique Iogna-Prat; Part 1 Places, Monuments, Cities: Squarely built: an inquiry into the sources of ‘ad quadratum’ geometry in Lombard architecture between the 11th and the 12th centuries, Emanuele Lugli; The geometry of rib vaulting at Notre Dame of Paris: architectural or exegetical space?, Stefaan van Liefferinge; Gothic drawing and the shaping of space, Robert Bork; Marking the city for Christ: spatiality and the invention of Utrecht’s medieval cross of churches, David Ross Winter. Part 2 Spatial Networks and Territories: From plebs to parochial: the perceptions of the church in space from the 9th to 12th century (dioceses of Rennes, Dol, and Saint Malo), Anne Lunven; New masters of space: the creation of communication networks in the West (11th-12th centuries), Thomas Wetzstein; Inventing legal space: from regional custom to common law in the Coutumiers of medieval France, Ada-Maria Kuskowski. Part 3 Cartography and Imagined Geographies: the image of France in the Beatus map of Saint Sever, Sandra Saènz Lopez Perez; France in the two geographical works of Al-Idrisi (Sicily, 12th century) Jean-Charles Ducène; From Gaul to the kingdom of France: representations of French space in geographical texts of the Middle Ages (12th-15th centuries), Nathalie Bouloux; The definition and boundaries of Eucharistic space in the Grail Prose Romances: focalization and dissemination, Catherine Nicolas; Index. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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