Classen Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

The Spatial Turn in Premodern Studies
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-028542-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 930 Seiten

Reihe: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to consider the meaning of rural space, both in light of ecocritical readings and social-historical approaches. While previous scholars examined the figure of the peasant in the premodern world, the current volume combines a large number of specialized studies that investigate how the natural environment and the appearance of members of the rural population interacted with the world of the court and of the city. The experience in rural space was important already for writers and artists in the premodern era, as the large variety of scholarly approaches indicates. The present volume signals how much the surprisingly close interaction between members of the aristocratic and of the peasant class determined many literary and art-historical works. In a surprisingly large number of cases we can even discover elements of utopia hidden in rural space. We also observe how much the rural world was a significant element already in early-medieval mentality. Moreover, as many authors point out, the impact of natural forces on premodern society was tremendous, if not catastrophic.

Zielgruppe

Academics (Medieval Studies), Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Classen, Albrecht

Weitere Mitwirkende

Clason, Christopher R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction. Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: A Significant Domain Ignored For Too Long by Modern Research?;11
1.1;1. Critical Inquiry: The Relevance of Rural Space;11
1.2;2. Natural Space and the Medieval Encyclopedia;19
1.3;3. The Spatial Turn in Medieval and Premodern Studies;24
1.4;4. Rural Space and Ecocriticism;27
1.5;5. Space and Historical-Literary Investigations;39
1.6;6. Perception of Rural Space in The Voyage of St. Brendan: An Early-Medieval Voice;40
1.7;7. Nature in a Spanish Medieval Epic Poem: El Poema de Mío Cid: Human Drama in the Wilderness;45
1.8;8. The Mountain in the Art and Literature of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: The Most Massive Challenge in Nature;47
1.9;9. Climbing the Mountain, or Ascending to the Renaissance? Franceso Petrarca’s Reflections on Nature;50
1.10;10. Oswald von Wolkenstein: The Aristocrat versus the Peasant. Secret Longing for Life in Rural Space?;54
1.11;11. The Perception of the Natural World: The Testimony of Medieval Courtly Literature;59
1.12;12. Growing up in the Wilderness: Youthful Experiences in the Forest: Perceval/Parzival in the Romances by Chrétien de Troye and Wolfram von Eschenbach;61
1.13;13. Ominous Approaches: Wolfram von Eschenbach's Titurel: Seeking Refuge from Society in the Forest;66
1.14;14. Nature and the Courtly World: Literary Reflections on Rural Space in High Medieval Literature;67
1.15;15. The Protagonist's Existential Test in Nature: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight;69
1.16;16. Love (?) in the Mountains: Juan Ruiz’s Libro de buen amor. Late-Medieval Spanish Reflections on Rural Space;71
1.17;17. Rural Space in Late-Medieval Short Verse Narratives;76
1.18;18. The Court, the City, and the Rural Space in Boccaccio's Decameron;78
1.19;19. William Langland's Piers the Plowman: Late-Medieval English Religious and Social Reflections;80
1.20;20. Johannes von Tepl's Ackermann: A German-Czech Writer's Reference to the Metaphorical Peasant;87
1.21;21. Hugo von Trimberg's Renner: A Thirteenth-Century Didactic Perspective Toward Peasants;88
1.22;22. Wernher der Gartenære's Helmbrecht: The Attempted Break. Out of the Social Order;91
1.23;23. The Testimony of Medieval and Late-Medieval Art;93
1.24;24. Peasants, Rural Existence, the Protestant Reformation and Farmer's Self-Expression Until the Seventeenth Century;97
1.25;25. Economic Aspects Pertaining to Rural Space;101
1.26;26. Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring;110
1.27;27. Rural Space and the Supportive Peasant Figure in Queen Sibille (Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken);112
1.28;28. Collaboration of the Good Peasant with the Noble Lady;113
1.29;29. Exploration of Rural Space in Sixteenth-Century Literature: Till Eulenspiegel and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron;116
1.30;30. The Testimony of Late-Medieval Art Once Again;124
1.31;31. Acknowledgment and Summaries of All Contributions in this Volume;136
1.32;32. Conclusion;190
2;Chapter 1. Reforming the Monastic Landscape: Peter Damian's Design for Personal and Communal Devotion;203
3;Chapter 2. Women's Place and Women's Space in the Medieval Village;219
4;Chapter 3. “Gebrochen bluomen unde gras”: Medieval Ecological Consciousness in Selected Poems by Walther von der Vogelweide;237
5;Chapter 4. Utopian Space in the Countryside: Love and Marriage between a Knight and a Peasant Girl in Medieval German Literature. Hartmann von Aue's Der arme Heinrich, Anonymous, “Dis ist von dem Heselin,” Walther von der Vogelweide, Oswald von Wolkenste;261
6;Chapter 5. Rural Space and Agricultural Space in the Old French Fabliaux and the Roman de Renart;291
7;Chapter 6. Wood, Court, and River in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi;305
8;Chapter 7. Rural Space and Transgressive Space in Bérenger au lonc cul;323
9;Chapter 8. Life on the Manor and in Rural Space: Answering the Challenges of Social Decay in William Langland's Piers Plowman;361
10;Chapter 9. Landscape of Luxuries: Mahaut d’Artois’s (1302–1329) Management and Use of the Park at Hesdin;377
11;Chapter 10. Hunting or Gardening: Parks and Royal Rural Space;399
12;Chapter 11. The Significance of Rural Space in Guillaume de Palerne;417
13;Chapter 12. The Forest as Locus of Transition and Transformation in the Epic Romance Berte aus grans pies;443
14;Chapter 13. Juan Manuel’s Libro de la caza (ca. 1325);461
15;Chapter 14. Hunting as Salvation in Gaston Phebus’s Livre de chasse;515
16;Chapter 15. Rural Space in Late Medieval Books of Hours: Book Illustrations as a Looking-Glass Into Medieval Mentality and Mirrors of Ecocriticism;539
17;Chapter 16. The Tame Wilderness of Princes: Images of Nature in Exemplars of Books of Hours and in the Livre du Cœur d’amour épris of King René of Anjou;571
18;Chapter 17. Marshy Spaces in the Middle English Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne: Physical and Spiritual Territory;599
19;Chapter 18. Peasant Authors and Peasant Haters: Matazone da Caligano and the Ambiguity of the Satira del villano in High and Late Medieval Italy;617
20;Chapter 19. “Lazarus and Abraham, our Jews of Eggenburg”: Jews in the Austrian Countryside in the Fourteenth Century;649
21;Chapter 20. Small Town, Big Business: A Wealthy Jewish Moneylender in the Austrian Countryside;683
22;Chapter 21. Usos rerum rusticarum: Malae consuetudines, male usos lege and Peasant Rebellion as Resistance or Adaptation to Legal Change;695
23;Chapter 22. Village People: The Presence of the Rural in Late Medieval French Comedies;713
24;Chapter 23. Uprooted Trees and Slaughtered Peasants: The Savaging of Rural Space in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1532);739
25;Chapter 24. Representations of the Plowman and the Prostitute in Puritan and Anti-Puritan Satire: Or the Rhetoric of Plainness and the Reformation of the Popular in the Harvey Nashe Quarrel;765
26;Chapter 25. The Poet in Exile: Robert Herrick and the “loathed Country-life”;805
27;Chapter 26. Women at the Hunt: Developing a Gendered Logic of Rural Space in the Netherlandish Visual Tradition;829
28;Chapter 27. “The free Enjoyment of the Earth”: Gerrard Winstanley on Land Reform;875
29;List of Illustrations;901
30;Contributors;905
31;Index;915

Über Autor(innen)

Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, USA.