IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1517: Stories, Writing, and the Consciousness of Space
Thursday 12 July 2007, 09.00-10.30
Moderator/Chair: | Marco Mostert, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
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Paper 1517-a | Urban Stories: The Symbolic Landscape of Anecdotes in 15th-Century Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Mentalities |
Paper 1517-b | The 'Writing Families' of London, c. 1420-1520 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Literacy and Orality |
Paper 1517-c | The City as a Space of Self-Consciousness in the 14th Century through the Writings of Dino Compagni, Dante, and Petrarch (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Local History, Political Thought |
Abstract | Paper a: 15th-century Paris is very rich in diaries and urban chronicles, whose writers tended to include a growing number of anecdotes, scandalous stories, faits divers in their work. This period is an important turning point in the function of these anecdotes, more and more centered on everyday life and crime. Their writers – srcibes of the Parliament, intellectuals, churchmen and rich laymen – had to create the context for their stories, they described thus the places where the interesting events happened. These descriptions can reveal to us how they viewed their city, how they looked at urban space and, more generally, what kind of outillage mental they disposed of. |