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Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 4001500

Map of Sites Discussed (based on A. Jarvis, H.I. Reuter, A. Nelson, E. Guevara, 2008, Hole-filled seamless SRTM data V4, International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), available from http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org)

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing

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B RITISH L IBRARY C ATALOGUING IN P UBLICATION D ATA
Cities, Texts, and Social Networks, 4001500: Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval

Urban Space.

1. Cities and towns, Medieval. 2. Urban ecology (Sociology) History--To 1500.

3. City and town life History To 1500.

I. Goodson, Caroline. II. Lester, Anne Elisabeth, 1974 .III. Symes, Carol.

307.760902dc22

L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS C ATA LOGING - IN -P UBLICATION D ATA
Goodson, Caroline.

Cities, Texts, and Social Networks, 4001500: Experiences and Perceptions of

Medieval Urban Space / Caroline Goodson, Anne E. Lester, and Carol Symes.

p. cm.

1. Cities and towns, Medieval. 2. City and town life History To 1500. 3. Cities and

towns, Medieval History Sources. 4. City and town life History To 1500

Sources. 5. Social networks History To 1500. 6. Space perception History

To 1500. 7. Religion and sociology History To 1500. 8. Charities History

To 1500. 9. Public institutions History To 1500. 10. Human ecology History

To 1500. I. Lester, Anne Elisabeth, 1974. II. Symes, Carol. III. Title.

HT115.G6665 2009

307.76--dc22

2009043769

ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-6723-0 (hbk)

Contents

Caroline Goodson, Anne E. Lester and Carol Symes

Gregor Kalas

Hugh Kennedy

Meredith Cohen

Ann Christys

Anne E. Lester

Jolle Rollo-Koster and Alizah Holstein

Scott G. Bruce

Sarah Rees Jones

Franz-Josef Arlinghaus

Sethina Watson

G. Geltner

Carol Symes

1. ii

Guide

0.1 Map of Sites Discussed (based on A. Jarvis, H.I. Reuter, A. Nelson, E. Guevara, 2008, Hole-filled seamless SRTM data V4, International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), available from http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org)

F RANZ -J OSEF A RLINGHAUS is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Bielefeld. He completed his PhD at the University of Mnster in 1997, analyzing the inherent dynamism of writing in the account books of an Italian merchant company. His Habilitation , completed at the University of Kassel in 2007, examines the relationship among rituals, literacy and space in the legal proceedings of late medieval Cologne.

S COTT G. B RUCE is Associate Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His first book, Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition (c. 9001200) , was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007. His current book project is entitled Hagiography and the Construction of Islam: Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet (9721156) .

A NN C HRISTYS specializes in the history and historiography of medieval Spain in the early Islamic period. In 2002 she published Christians in al-Andalus 7111000 (Richmond, 2002), and she has also produced several articles and book chapters on medieval Spanish societies. She is an independent scholar and anaesthetist living in Leeds.

M EREDITH C OHEN received her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Archaeology at Columbia University in 2004. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds and the President of the International Medieval Society of Paris. Her research interests include medieval architecture, sculpture and urbanism as well as nineteenth-century medievalism, particularly in France. She is currently completing her first book, tentatively titled, Building Sovereignty: The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Monarchy in Thirteenth-Century Paris . She has published articles that range in subject matter from nineteenth-century restoration theory and practice to medieval architecture and liturgy.

G. G ELTNER is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam. His research explores attitudes toward marginals, mechanisms of social control, and the construction of deviance in pre-industrial societies. He is the author of The Medieval Prison: A Social History (Princeton, 2008), and is currently working on a history of medieval antifraternalism.

C AROLINE G OODSON is the RCUK Academic Fellow in Medieval Archaeology and Lecturer in medieval archaeology and history at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research focuses on the transition from late antiquity to the middle ages in the western Mediterranean, and she pursues ongoing research and excavation projects in Rome, Anagni, Morocco and Algeria. Her first book, The Rome of Pope Paschal I (817824): Papal Power, Urban Renovation, Church Rebuilding and Relic Translation was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010.

A LIZAH H OLSTEIN received her Ph.D. in medieval history from Cornell University. Her research interests include the social, political, and cultural history of medieval Rome and its place in the wider Italian and Mediterranean worlds. She has written several articles on related topics for The Encyclopedia of World History and The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages.

G REGOR K ALAS received his Ph.D. in the History of Art from Bryn Mawr College. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, where he teaches the history and theory of architecture, having previously taught at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on the reuse and preservation of ancient architecture during the early middle ages. He has published essays in Arris and S. Maria Antiqua al Foro Romano: Cento anni dopo . Currently, he is writing a book on the Roman Forum during late antiquity.

H UGH K ENNEDY is the Professor of Arabic at the School of oriental and Asian Studies, University of London. His teaching and research interests lie in the history of the Middle East and the formation Arabic and Islamic culture in the first centuries after the life of the Prophet. He has published on the archaeology of the early medieval Middle East, its military and government, and on the court culture of the early caliphate. He recently published The Great Arab Conquests (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007) and is currently completing a political and cultural history of the coming of Islam to the Middle East.

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