Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Author :
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 932
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783110285420
ISBN-13 : 3110285428
Rating : 4/5 (428 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age by : Albrecht Classen

Download or read book Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age Related Books

Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Language: en
Pages: 932
Authors: Albrecht Classen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-29 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

GET EBOOK

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 cons
Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
Language: en
Pages: 769
Authors: Albrecht Classen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

GET EBOOK

Although the city as a central entity did not simply disappear with the Fall of the Roman Empire, the development of urban space at least since the twelfth cent
Nature in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times
Language: en
Pages: 606
Authors: Albrecht Classen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-07-01 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

GET EBOOK

The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and thr
Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Language: en
Pages: 724
Authors: Albrecht Classen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

GET EBOOK

Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlations betwe
Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Albrecht Classen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-11 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of B