Author : Paul Oldfield (Lecturer in medieval history)
Release : 2019
Genre : Cities and towns
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 232/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Urban Panegyric & the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300 by : Paul Oldfield (Lecturer in medieval history)
Download or read book Urban Panegyric & the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300 written by Paul Oldfield (Lecturer in medieval history). This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers the first extensive analysis of the function and significance of urban panegyric in the Central Middle Ages, a flexible literary genre which enjoyed a marked and renewed popularity in the period 1100 to 1300. In doing so, it connects the production of urban panegyric to major underlying transformations in the medieval city and explores praise of cities primarily in England, Flanders, France, Germany, Iberia, and Italy (including the South and Sicily). The study demonstrates how laudatory ideas on the city appeared in extremely diverse textual formats which had the potential to interact with a wide audience via multiple textual and material sources.