Madeline Fanny - Space in the Medieval West

SPACE IN THE MEDIEVAL WEST

Places, Territories, and Imagined Geographies

Edited by

MEREDITH COHEN
University of California, Los Angeles, USA

FANNY MADELINE
Laboratoire de Mdivistique Occidentale de Paris, France

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing

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Space in the Medieval West : places, territories, and imagined geographies / edited by Meredith Cohen and Fanny Madeline.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-5301-7 (hardcover) 1. Civilization, Medieval. 2. Space (Architecture)Social aspectsEuropeHistoryTo 1500. I. Cohen, Meredith, editor of compilation. II. Madeline, Fanny, editor of compilation. III. Title.

CB353.S67 2014

940.1dc23

2013042235

ISBN 9781409453017 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315610115 (ebk)

Meredith Cohen, Fanny Madeline, and Dominique Iogna-Prat

Emanuele Lugli

Stefaan Van Liefferinge

Robert Bork

David Ross Winter

Anne Lunven (translated from the French by Emanuele Lugli)

Thomas Wetzstein (translated from the French by Raeleen Chai-Elsholz)

Ada-Maria Kuskowski

Sandra Senz-Lpez Prez

Jean-Charles Ducne (translated from the French by Robert Bork)

Nathalie Bouloux (translated from the French by Katherine Bork)

Catherine Nicolas (translated from the French by Raeleen Chai-Elsholz)

Meredith Cohen is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a co-founder and was the President of the International Medieval Society of Paris from 200314. Her research focuses on medieval architecture and urbanism, particularly France in the Gothic period, especially in Paris.

Fanny Madeline obtained her Ph.D. in medieval history from the Universit de Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne in 2009 after completing a thse on the building policy of the Angevin Kings of England. She is currently a member of the editorial board for the journal Medievales, and she is the Paris Director for the International Medieval Society of Paris as well as an affiliate member of the LAMOP (Laboratoire de Mdivistique Occidentale de Paris, Paris 1/CNRS).

Robert Bork, a specialist in the study of Gothic architecture, serves as Professor of Art History at the University of Iowa. His research interests include the history of towers and spires, the fate of Gothic architecture in the Renaissance, and the geometrical methods of Gothic designers, a theme that he explored in his most recent book The Geometry of Creation: Architectural Drawing and the Dynamics of Gothic Design (Ashgate, 2011).

Nathalie Bouloux is Matre de Confrences at the Universit Franois Rabelais de Tours, associated with the Centre dtudes Suprieures de la Renaissance. Her research focuses on representations of space in the context of their production, specifically, cultural geography of the ninth through the fifteenth century, space and territory, and human geography. She is the author of Culture et savoirs gographiques en Italie au XIVe sicle (Brepols, 2002) and has written on the orbis terrarum in a volume of the Atelier du Mdiviste collection entitled, La terre: connaissance, reprsentations, mesure, directed by Patrick Gautier Dalch (forthcoming).

Jean-Charles Ducne is Directeur dtudes at the cole Pratique des Hautes tudes (Paris). His research and publications deal with medieval Islamic geography. He has published LAfrique dans le Uns al-muha dal-Idrs and he is currently preparing an edition and translation of the description of Alexandria by Ibn al-Jumay (twelfth century).

Dominique Iogna-Prat is Directeur de Recherche with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Professor at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He is the author of Ordonner et exclure: Cluny et la socit chrtienne face lhrsie, au judasme et lislam, 10001150 (2nd edn Paris, 2000 [1998] (translated into English as Order and Exclusion: Cluny and Europe Face Heresy, Judaism, and Islam (10001150) (New York, 2002), and La Maison Dieu. Une histoire monumentale de lglise au Moyen ge (v. 800v. 1200) (Paris, 2006), for which he was awarded the prestigious Medaille dArgent by the CNRS. His current field of researchThe Church Encapsulated: The Construction of Society (12001650)deals with the material and institutional problems of the Church in late medieval and premodern times.

Ada-Maria Kuskowski specializes in medieval history and legal history, and is notably interested in the history of custom, lay thinkers, court culture and history of the book. She recently completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University with a dissertation titled Writing Custom: Juristic Imagination and the Invention of Customary Law in Thirteenth-Century France. She is currently Law and Society Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Stefaan Van Liefferinge is an architectural historian studying medieval architecture from a perspective of the history of science. His interest is to approach historic monuments through a combination of traditional architectural history and contemporary science and technology. He has held different academic positions and currently is a project manager in software engineering for a company specializing in artificial intelligence.

Emanuele Lugli is Lecturer in Medieval Art and Architecture at the Department of History of Art at the University of York. Dr Lugli specializes in Mediterranean art, architecture and visual culture from 10001500, with an emphasis on the nexus between art, politics, science and technology. His intellectual concerns include metrics, questions of scale and labor/energetics, conceptualizations of precision, vagueness, blurriness and darkness, the role of networks and inertia in art history.

Anne Lunven is a member of the Laboratoire du Centre de Recherches Historiques de lOuest (CERHIO). She is currently a contractual archaeologist at the lInstitut national de recherches archologiques prventives (INRAP) as well as an adjunct teacher in medieval archaeology at the Universit de Nantes. Her research interests include the formation of ecclesiastical territories, the process of materialization and spatialization of the sacred on land, the evolution of religious architecture and funerary practices, the modalities of land occupation, and the representation of space in ancient societies.