Name: Topographies of the Early Modern City
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Topographies of the Early Modern City

Edited by: Arthur Groos, Edited by: Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Edited by: Markus Stock, Series edited by: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Series edited by: Arthur Groos, Series edited by: Volker Mertens, Series edited by: Hans-Jochen Schiewer

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Published: 19-Nov-2008
ISBN: 9783899715354

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260 Pages

Subjects:
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
Society & culture: general

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This volume contains papers by germanists, historians, and art historians on visual and conceptual aspects of early modern city culture ranging from representations of the city to urban spatial and social practices. The essays focus on some of the culturally most vibrant cities in early modern Europe, with special emphasis on German-speaking countries. Topics include the dissemination and control of city images, carnivalizing performances of social/religious dissent, narrative constraints in fifteenth-century urban historiography, Christian humanism and the controversy over Jewish books, the Carthusian influence on the spiritual topography of a city, the humanist agenda in imperial entries, the evolution of three-dimensional city models, transposing Renaissance Italian song models into a transalpine city context, and the emergence of the city views known as vedute.

Arthur Groos is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, and Professor of German Studies, Medieval Studies, and Music.

Professor Dr. Hans-Jochen Schiewer holds the chair for Germanic Philology, Older German Literature and Language at the University of Freiburg.

Prof. Dr. Markus Stock is an Associate Professor of German and Medieval Studies and the Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. He held invited visiting professorships at the University of Freiburg and Havard University. His research interests include high medieval German epic, romance, and Minnesang, historical narratology, the history of pain as well as medieval and early modern texts on Alexander the Great. He is the principal investigator of a multi-year research project, Spatial Practices in German literature, 1150-1300, funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Arthur Groos is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, and Professor of German Studies, Medieval Studies, and Music.

Dr Volker Mertens is a professor for older German literature and language at the FU Berlin.

Professor Dr. Hans-Jochen Schiewer holds the chair for Germanic Philology, Older German Literature and Language at the University of Freiburg.