IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 718: Analysing City Forms, I: Spatial Symbolism and the Medieval City
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Keith Lilley, School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Richard Holt, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet |
| Paper 718-a | City as Symbol: Urban Forms and their Christian Meaning (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies, Mentalities |
| Paper 718-b | Threshold and Orientation in the Plan of Medieval Salisbury (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies, Mentalities |
| Paper 718-c | Space and Symbolism in the Medieval Marketplace (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies, Mentalities |
| Abstract | The material layouts of medieval urban landscapes tend to get treated as a neutral space. Yet urban spaces convey and mediate particular cultural values, meanings and beliefs. This session explores the theme of 'spatial symbolism' – of how the spaces that made up medieval towns and cities were understood symbolically by those who imagined, built and inhabited them. The session takes three different disciplinary perspectives with papers by an historian, an architect, and a geographer, whose interests all lie in taking a contextual approach to interpreting medieval urban landscapes, and drawing out their spatialities and their symbolic meanings. |