Medieval Practices of SpaceThe contributors to this volume cross disciplinary and theoretical boundaries to read the words, metaphors, images, signs, poetic illusions, and identities with which medieval men and women used space and place to add meaning to the world. |
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Contents
Place Power and Public Fantasy | 1 |
The Linguistic Cartography of Property and Power | 37 |
Spaces of Arbitration and the Organization of Space | 64 |
Architecture and the Iconoclastic Controversy | 121 |
Staging PlaceSpace in the EleventhCentury | 128 |
Space and Discipline in Early Medieval Europe | 149 |
Theatrical Space Mutable Space and the Space | 167 |
Dramatic Memories and Tortured Spaces | 199 |
The Spatial Afterlife | 223 |
On Villons | 242 |
Contributors | 261 |
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