Description
Premodern and modern conceptualizations of place and space in literature, 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 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.
Prof. Dr. Jutta Eming ist Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für Ältere deutsche Literatur und Sprache an der Freien Universität Berlin. Zu ihren Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören Darstellungsformen des Wunderbaren und historischer Emotionalität in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit sowie die Gattungen des mittelalterlichen Romans und des geistlichen Spiels. Fragestellungen der mediävistischen Gender Studies beschäftigen sie kontinuierlich.Arthur Groos is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, and Professor of German Studies, Medieval Studies, and Music.
Dr. Volker Mertens ist Professor für Ältere deutsche Literatur und Sprache an der FU Berlin.
Matthias Meyer ist Universitätsprofessor für Ältere deutsche Sprache und Literatur am Institut für Germanistik der Universität Wien. Professor Dr. Hans-Jochen Schiewer ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Germanische Philologie, Ältere deutsche Literatur und Sprache an der Universität 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.
