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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Editor's Introduction to "Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe" / Lambourn, Elizabeth -- The Future of Aztec Law / Offner, Jerome A. -- Land and Tenure in Early Colonial Peru: Individualizing the Sapci, "That Which is Common to All" / Ramírez, Susan Elizabeth -- The Edict of King Gälawdéwos against the Illegal Slave Trade in Christians: Ethiopia, 1548 / Tegegne, Habtamu Mengistie -- Mutilation and the Law in Early Medieval Europe and India: A Comparative Study / Skinner, Patricia -- Common Threads: A Reappraisal of Medieval European Sumptuary Law / Wilson, Laurel Ann -- Toward a History of Documents in Medieval India: The Encounter of Scholasticism and Regional Law in the Smṛticandrikā / Davis, Donald R. -- Chinese Porcelain and the Material Taxonomies of Medieval Rabbinic Law: Encounters with Disruptive Substances in Twelfth-Century Yemen / Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip / Lambourn, Elizabeth -- Index

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- PART 1: CONSTRUCTING AND RESTRUCTURING -- 2 Writing and Restoration in Rome: Inscriptions, Statues and the Late Antique Preservation of Buildings -- 3 How to Found an Islamic City -- 4 Metropolitan Architecture, Demographics and the Urban Identity of Paris in the Thirteenth Century -- PART 2: TOPOGRAPHIES AS TEXTS -- 5 The Meaning of Topography in Umayyad Córdoba -- 6 Crafting a Charitable Landscape: Urban Topographies in Charters and Testaments from Medieval Champagne -- 7 Anger and Spectacle in Late Medieval Rome: Gauging Emotion in Urban Topography -- PART 3: CITIZENS AND SAINTS -- 8 Local Sanctity and Civic Typology in Early Medieval Pavia: The Example of the Cult of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny -- 9 Cities and Their Saints in England, circa 1150-1300: The Development of Bourgeois Values in the Cults of Saint William of York and Saint Kenelm of Winchcombe -- 10 The Myth of Urban Unity: Religion and Social Performance in Late Medieval Braunschweig -- PART 4: AGENCY AND AUTHORITY -- 11 City as Charter: Charity and the Lordship of English Towns, 1170-1250 -- 12 'The Best Place in the World': Imaging Urban Prisons in Late Medieval Italy -- 13 Out in the Open, in Arras: Sightlines, Soundscapes and the Shaping of a Medieval Public Sphere -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- SERIES PREFACE -- GENERAL EDITOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- GENRE TROUBLE: TRAGEDY, COMEDY, AND THE CONFUSION DES GENRES -- HISTORIOGRAPHY TROUBLE: THAT ABSENCE WHICH IS NOT ONE -- AUDIENCE TROUBLE: CATHARSIS AND CONTROL -- CHAPTER ONE Forms and Media -- ANCIENT TRAGEDIES AND MEDIEVAL MEDIA -- FORMS OF TRAGEDY IN THE EMERGING LATIN WEST -- MEDIEVAL MODES OF CONVEYANCE -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER TWO Sites of Performance and Circulation -- TOWARDS A POETICS OF MEDIEVAL TRAGIC PLACE -- THE SONG OF SYBIL, CASTILE AND CATALONIA(THIRTEENTH THROUGH SIXTEENTH CENTURIES) -- FARSA DEL JUEGO DE CAÑAS , TALAVERA LA REAL (1554) -- DANCES OF DEATH, PAN-EUROPEAN (FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES) -- LLIBRE VERMELL , MONTSERRAT ( c. 1399-1400) -- DANÇA GENERAL DE LA MUERTE (COMPOSED c. 1392, COPIED c. 1460-80) -- THE CASTLE OF PERSEVERANCE, EAST ANGLIA ( c. 1440) -- ORDINALIA , CORNWALL (LATE FOURTEENTH CENTURY) -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER THREE Communities of Production and Consumption -- NICHOLAS TREVET, TRANSLATOR STUDII -- TRAGEDY'S ORIGIN: THE FALL OF ADAM -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER FOUR Philosophy and Social Theory -- I. THEORIES OF TRAGEDY IN LATE ANTIQUITY -- II. THE LEGACIES OF LATE ANTIQUE THEORIES OF TRAGEDY IN MEDIEVAL MUSICAL PRAXIS -- III. TRAGEDY AND SOCIETY IN BYZANTIUM47 -- IV. THEORIES OF TRAGEDY IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL WEST -- V. THE USES OF TRAGEDY IN MEDIEVAL COMMUNITIES: CHRISTIAN, JEWISH, AND MUSLIM -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER FIVE Religion, Ritual and Myth -- I. THEATER VS. AMPHITHEATER -- II. THE BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY FROM THE SPIRIT OF TRAGEDY -- III. THE TRAGEDY OF MARTYRDOM -- IV. THE MEDIEVAL RENASCENCE OF TRAGEDY -- EPILOGUE: THE SENECAN RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND.

For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn t be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies. The result? A recuperated medieval tragedy that is as much a branch of literature as it is of theology, politics, law, or ethics and which, at long last, rejoins the millennium-long conversation about one of the world s most enduring art forms.Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality

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