Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000-1600) : Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Kümmeler, Fabian (EDT)/ Majorossy, Judit (EDT)/ Hovden, Eirik (EDT)

Brill（2021/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 560 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004465770
• DDC分類 307

Full Description

This volume explores social practices of framing, building and enacting community in urban-rural relations across medieval Eurasia. Introducing fresh comparative perspectives on practices and visions of community, it offers a thorough source-based examination of medieval communal life in its sociocultural complexity and diversity in Central and Southeast Europe, South Arabia and Tibet. As multi-layered social phenomena, communities constantly formed, restructured and negotiated internal allegiances, while sharing a topographic living space and joint notions of belonging. The volume challenges disciplinary paradigms and proposes an interdisciplinary set of low-threshold categories and tools for cross-cultural comparison of urban and rural communities in the Global Middle Ages.

Contributors are Maaike van Berkel, Hubert Feiglstorfer, Andre Gingrich, Károly Goda, Elisabeth Gruber, Johann Heiss, Kateřina Horníčková, Eirik Hovden, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari, Odile Kommer, Fabian Kümmeler, Christina Lutter, Judit Majorossy, Ermanno Orlando, and Noha Sadek.

Contents

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia: Introduction and Practical Approaches

 Elisabeth Gruber and Fabian Kümmeler

PART 1: Practising Community in Urban and Rural Spaces

2 Symbols, Signs and Acts of Social Cohesion in the Austrian Danube Region

 Elisabeth Gruber

3 Legal, Spatial and Ritual Practices and Visions of Community in Late Medieval Venice: Comparative Perspectives

 Ermanno Orlando

4 Balancing a Community's Food and Water Supply: The Social Impact of Rural-Urban Interdependences in Korčula (Dalmatia) and Ṣaʿda (Yemen)

 Fabian Kümmeler and Johann Heiss

5 Conceptualizing City-Hinterland Relations and Governance: Medieval Sanaa as a Case Study

 Eirik Hovden, Johann Heiss and Odile Kommer

PART 2: Representing Community through Public Buildings and Performative Culture

6 Public Buildings and/as Symbolic Framing of Urban-cum-Rural Communal Practice in Western Tibet

 Christian Jahoda

7 Material Culture in the Western Himalayas: Mandalic Settlement Patterns and Material Components of the Ritual Space

 Hubert Feiglstorfer

8 Image Construction and Community Building in the Spiritual Career of the Buddha in Western Tibet from the Eleventh-Thirteenth Century

 Christiane Kalantari

9 Visualising Communities: The Canonry of Třeboň (Southern Bohemia)

 Kateřina Horníčková

10 The Monuments of Rasulid Taʿizz: The Physical Construction of Power and Piety

 Noha Sadek

PART 3: Practising Community - Forms of Integration and Differentiation

11 Defining Rules of Rural-Urban Flows: Endowments, Authority and Law in Medieval Zaydi Yemen in a Comparative Perspective

 Eirik Hovden

12 Constructing Communal Memory through Donations in Medieval East-Central Europe

 Judit Majorossy

13 Notes on Foundations and Endowments in Historical Western Tibet (Late Tenth-Fifteenth Century)

 Christian Jahoda

14 Binding the Bonds: Metropolitan Modes of Eucharistic Confraternal and Processional Life in Late Medieval East-Central Europe

 Károly Goda

15 "To Extol Knowledge": Celebrating the Completion of Books in Rasulid Yemen

 Johann Heiss

16 Building Community with Processions and Endowments

 Maaike van Berkel

PART 4: Conclusions

17 Urban Patterns of Belonging by Comparison: Assessing a Work in Progress

 Christina Lutter

18 Nodal Conglomerates and Their Visions: Comparative Reflections on Urban-Rural Settings across Asia and Europe (1000-1600 CE)

 Andre Gingrich

Bibliography

Index of Geographical Names

Index of Persons