Spatial Practices
Medieval/Modern
Edited by Markus Stock Edited by Nicola Vöhringer Series edited by Jutta Eming Series edited by Arthur Groos Series edited by Volker Mertens Series edited by Matthias Meyer Series edited by Ann Marie Rasmussen Series edited by Hans-Jochen Schiewer Series edited by Markus Stock
Hardback (Published)
(September 2014)
ISBN: 9783847100010
6.54 x 9.09 inches
Price: $82.00
On back order
In recent decades, the conceptualization of space and place as social constructs, rather than static settings, has received significant attention and has been re-evaluated with an emphasis on cultural, social, and political practice. The study of spatial practices interrogates human action in a variety of spaces, human agency in the production of space, and space in its capacity to prompt human action. This volume focuses on such interrelations of space and human agency in medieval and modern culture from a variety of angles, such as literature, philosophy, architecture, art, and city planning.
In recent decades the conceptualization of space and place as social constructs, rather than static settings has received significant attention and has been re-evaluated with an emphasis on the cultural, social and political practice. This shift moves away from regarding space as fixed, unchanging container towards a realization that space is always inextricably linked with social practice and cultural signification. Thus, the study of spatial practices interrogates human action in different spaces, human agency in the production of space, and space in its capacity to prompt human action. By focusing on human action in manipulating and subverting space, and thereby creating multiple coexisting and overlapping spatialities, the interest also shifts from semiotic correlations in cultural expressions to events, practices, material and medial embodiment of culture. This collection of essays approaches the study of space and place from a historically inclusive perspective; it gives new insights into historical shifts and changes in the construction and perception of space as well as historical developments and diachonicity of literary, social, and architectural sites and places. It aims to gather a number of case studies in order to collect historically concrete evidence of such spatial practices as reflected in literature and art as well as in sources pertaining to the social and political life of premodern, early modern, and modern era.
Prof. Dr. Markus Stock is an Associate Professor of German and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Nicola Vohringer studied at the University of Tubingen, Strasbourg and Nebraska.
- Edited by Markus Stock
- Edited by Nicola Vöhringer
- Series edited by Jutta Eming
- Series edited by Arthur Groos
- Series edited by Volker Mertens
- Series edited by Matthias Meyer
- Series edited by Ann Marie Rasmussen
- Series edited by Hans-Jochen Schiewer
- Series edited by Markus Stock
Other Titles in this Series
Grounding Community
Eckhartian Mysticism and Social Reform from the Late Middle Ages to the Fin de Siècle
Kulturen des Manuskriptzeitalters
Ergebnisse der Amerikanisch-Deutschen Arbeitstagung an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen vom 17. bis 20. Oktober 2002
Diz vliegende bîspel
Ambiguity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Essays in Honor of Arthur Groos
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