IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 723: Cities, Texts, and Social Networks, I: Liturgy, Sanctity, and Urban Topography
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Anne E. Lester, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Carol Symes, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Paper 723-a | The Gothic Cathedral as Countersite: Discourses of the Urban in Art and Liturgy (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Art History - General, Liturgy, Religious Life |
| Paper 723-b | Saints and Civic Culture in Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Other, Social History |
| Paper 723-c | The 1377 Papal Entry, the Romans, and Carnival: Gauging Emotion in Urban Topography? (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Mentalities |
| Abstract | This series of five sessions examines the ways in which texts, be they legal, descriptive, metaphoric, or architectural, work to create and to transform urban spaces and frame specifically urban experiences. Such texts illuminate the social networks that lay at the heart of medieval urban worlds, where the density of population engendered experiences of space distinctive to the city. Papers in these sessions draw upon a variety of evidentiary sourcesfrom Baghdad to York and consider the physical spaces of cities, the meaning of urban property disputes, the place and power of hospitals and prisons, among other topics. |