Author: Thomas Frederick ToutPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Medieval Town Planning
Author: Thomas Frederick ToutPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Medieval Urban Planning
Author: Mickey AbelPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443878650
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Broadly defined, urban planning today is a process one might describe as half design and half social engineering. It considers not only the aesthetic and visual product, but also the economic, political, and social implications, as well as the environmental impact. This collection of essays explores the question of whether this sort of multifaceted planning took place in the Middle Ages, and how it manifested itself outside of the monastic realm. Bringing together the monastic historian and archaeologist, with scholars of art and architecture, this volume expands our comprehension of how those in roles of authority saw the planning process and implemented their plans to structure a particular outcome. The examination of architectural complexes, literary sources, commercial legers, and political records highlights the multiple avenues for viewing the growing awareness of the social potential of an urban environment.
Medieval Cities
Author: Henri PirennePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"This little volume contains the substance of lectures ... delivered from October to December 1922 in several American universities."--Pref. Bibliography: p. [245]-249.
The Medieval City
Author: Norman PoundsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
An introduction to the life of towns and cities in the medieval period, this book shows how medieval towns grew to become important centers of trade and liberty. Beginning with a look at the Roman Empire's urban legacy, the author delves into urban planning or lack thereof; the urban way of life; the church in the city; city government; urban crafts and urban trade, health, wealth, and welfare; and the city in history. Annotated primary documents like Domesday Book, sketches of street life, and descriptions of fairs and markets bring the period to life, and extended biographical sketches of towns, regions, and city-dwellers provide readers with valuable detail. In addition, 26 maps and illustrations, an annotated bibliography, glossary, and index round out the work. After a long decline in urban life following the fall of the Roman Empire, towns became centers of trade and of liberty during the medieval period. Here, the author describes how, as Europe stabilized after centuries of strife, commerce and the commercial class grew, and urban areas became an important source of revenue into royal coffers. Towns enjoyed various levels of autonomy, and always provided goods and services unavailable in rural areas. Hazards abounded in towns, though. Disease, fire, crime and other hazards raised mortality rates in urban environs. Designed as an introduction to life of towns and cities in the medieval period, eminent historian Norman Pounds brings to life the many pleasures, rewards, and dangers city-dwellers sought and avoided. Beginning with a look at the Roman Empire's urban legacy, Pounds delves into Urban Planning or lack thereof; The Urban Way of Life; The Church in the City; City Government; Urban Crafts and Urban Trade, Health, Wealth, and Welfare; and The City in History. Annotated primary documents like Domesday Book, sketches of street life, and descriptions of fairs and markets bring the period to life, and extended biographical sketches of towns, regions, and city-dwellers provide readers with valuable detail. In addition, 26 maps and illustrations, an annotated bibliography, glossary, and index round out the work.
Lords and Towns in Medieval Europe
Author: Howard B. ClarkePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351921290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
This volume is the first publication to draw upon the mass of information provided by the Historic Towns Atlases in order to explore comparative questions in medieval urban history. The volume addresses the wider question of comparative urban studies, the processes that determined the morphological formation of towns, and the symbolic meaning of large-scale town plans in their cultural context.
Town Planning in Ancient India
Author: Binode Behari DuttPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Garden Cities and Town Planning
Author: Medieval Town Planning
Author: Thomas Frederick ToutPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Church in the Medieval Town
Author: T. R. SlaterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Status and Class in the Medieval Town -- 2 Conflict and Political Community in the Medieval Town: Disputes between Clergy and Laity in Hereford -- 3 The Church and the Jews in English Medieval Towns -- 4 Trade, Towns and the Church: Ecclesiastical Consumers and the Urban Economy of the West Midlands, 1290-1540 -- 5 The Origin and Early Development of the London Mendicant Houses
Riemenschneider in Rothenburg
Author: Katherine M. BoivinPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271090014
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The concept of the medieval city is fixed in the modern imagination, conjuring visions of fortified walls, towering churches, and winding streets. In Riemenschneider in Rothenburg, Katherine M. Boivin investigates how medieval urban planning and artistic programming worked together to form dynamic environments, demonstrating the agency of objects, styles, and spaces in mapping the late medieval city. Using altarpieces by the famed medieval artist Tilman Riemenschneider as touchstones for her argument, Boivin explores how artwork in Germany’s preeminent medieval city, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, deliberately propagated civic ideals. She argues that the numerous artistic pieces commissioned by the city’s elected council over the course of two centuries built upon one another, creating a cohesive structural network that attracted religious pilgrims and furthered the theological ideals of the parish church. By contextualizing some of Rothenburg’s most significant architectural and artistic works, such as St. James’s Church and Riemenschneider’s Altarpiece of the Holy Blood, Boivin shows how the city government employed these works to establish a local aesthetic that awed visitors, raising Rothenburg’s profile and putting it on the pilgrimage map of Europe. Carefully documented and convincingly argued, this book sheds important new light on the history of one of Germany’s major tourist destinations. It will be of considerable interest to medieval art historians and scholars working in the fields of cultural and urban history.