Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Introduction -- 1 The Medieval City: Stones, Communities, Concepts -- 1 Approaching the Medieval City -- 2 The Medieval City: Stones, People, Concepts -- 3 Volume Overview -- Bibliography -- Part II Monumentalising the City -- 2 Civic Commitment in the Post-Roman West: The Visigothic Case Study -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Early Medieval Cities as Place-Defined Communities -- 2.1 The Psychology of Place -- 2.2 Citizenship and Community Belonging -- 2.3 Leading the People, Managing the City: Elites and Civic Commitment -- 2.4 Popular Participation and Community Involvement -- 3 Commitment, Consensus, and Contribution: Civic Communities in Visigothic Iberia -- 3.1 Powerholders in Visigothic Cities -- 3.2 The Many Faces of Civic Commitment -- Institutional Contributions -- Private Donations -- Communal Action -- 4 Community and Investment in the Early Medieval City-Some Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3 Water Provision in Early Islamic Cities: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Urban Water Governance -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Early Islamic Urban Organisation -- 3 Tribes and Water Management -- 4 Cooperation Between the State and Local Actors -- 5 Water in the Caliphal Capitals -- 6 Residential Water Supply and Commercial Involvement -- 7 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 4 Places of Love and Honour: Cities and Almost-Cities in the Carolingian World -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The City and the Civitas -- 3 The Non-urban civitas -- 4 The Palace as civitas -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5 Expressing Civic Pride in Stone: Church Towers and Town Halls in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Low Countries -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Prodigy Towers -- 2.1 Tower Competition in Delft -- 2.2 The New Church's Tower in Delft as a Joint Effort.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (500 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783031485619
Series Statement:
The New Middle Ages Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31323961
DDC:
307.760902
Language:
English
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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