Urban Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City 1100 1300 1st edition by Paul Oldfield 0191027537 9780191027536

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ISBN-10 :  0191027537 

ISBN-13 :  9780191027536

Author : Paul Oldfield 

This study offers the first extensive analysis of the function and significance of urban panegyric in the Central Middle Ages, a flexible literary genre which enjoyed a marked and renewed popularity in the period 1100 to 1300. In doing so, it connects the production of urban panegyric to major underlying transformations in the medieval city and explores praise of cities primarily in England, Flanders, France, Germany, Iberia, and Italy (including the South and Sicily). The volume demonstrates how laudatory ideas on the city appeared in extremely diverse textual formats which had the potential to interact with a wide audience via multiple textual and material sources. When contextualized within the developments of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries these ideas could reflect more than formulaic, rhetorical outputs for an educated elite, they were instead integral to the process of urbanisation. In Urban Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300, Paul Oldfield assesses the generation of ideas on the Holy City, on counter-narratives associated with the Evil City, on the inter-relationship between the City and abundance (primarily through discourses on commercial productivity, hinterlands and population size), on landscapes and sites of power, and on knowledge generation and the construction of urban histories. Urban panegyric can enable us to comprehend more deeply material, functional, and ideological change associated with the city during a period of notable urbanization, and, importantly, how this change might have been experienced by contemporaries. This study therefore highlights the importance of urban panegyric as a product of, and witness to, a period of substantial urban change. In examining the laudatory depiction of medieval cities in a thematic analysis it can contribute to a deeper understanding of civic identity and its important connection to urban transformation.

Urban Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300 1st Table of contents:

1: The Sources: An Overview
2: Interpretation and Audience
INTERPRETING PANEGYRIC: FABRICATION, HYPERBOLE, AND TRUTH
AUTHORSHIP AND LITERARY CONVENTIONS
AUDIENCE
3: The Holy City
THE CITY IN CHRISTIAN DISCOURSE
REPLICATING THE HOLY CITY: BOLOGNA AND CHESTER
CITIES AS RECORDS OF CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH
PRAISING THE CITY’S RELIGIOUS MATRIX: SAINTS, HIERARCHIES, AND PIETY
4: The Evil City: Urban Critiques
DEEP CRITIQUES
DISORDER AND LAMENTATION
5: The City of Abundance: Commerce, Hinterland, People
COMMERCIAL REVIVAL
HINTERLAND
PEOPLE
6: Urban Landscapes and Sites of Power
THE MEDIEVAL BUILDING BOOM
URBAN FORTIFICATIONS
METROPOLISES AND SITES OF PUBLIC POWER
7: Education, History, and Sophistication
THE CITY AND THE MEDIEVAL INTELLECTUAL RENAISSANCE
ANCIENT URBAN HISTORIES
In Praise of the Medieval City: Conclusions
Bibliography
MANUSCRIPTS AND INCUNABULA
PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES
SECONDARY

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