Book Review: Single Life and the City 1200–1900: Men and Women Alone in North-western European Towns since the Late Middle Ages

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-202
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Western European ◽  
The City ◽  
North Western

Time and the Testator, 1370–1540

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
Judith Middleton-Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Past ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Limited Duration ◽  
At Will

There were many ways in which the late medieval testator could acknowledge time. Behind each testator lay a lifetime of memories and experiences on which he or she drew, recalling the names of those ‘they had fared the better for’, those they wished to remember and by whom they wished to be remembered. Their present time was of limited duration, for at will making they had to assemble their thoughts and their intentions, make decisions and appoint stewards, as they prepared for their time ahead; but as they spent present time arranging the past, so they spent present time laying plans for the future. Some testators had more to bequeath, more time to spare: others had less to leave, less time to plan. Were they aware of time? How did they control the future? In an intriguing essay, A. G. Rigg asserts that ‘one of the greatest revolutions in man’s perception of the world around him was caused by the invention, sometime in the late thirteenth century, of the mechanical weight-driven clock.’ It is the intention of this paper to see how men’s (and women’s) perception of time in the late Middle Ages was reflected in their wills, the most personal papers left by ordinary men and women of the period.

Die geschriebene Stadt

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Teresa Schröder-Stapper
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The City

The Written City. Inscriptions as Media of Urban Knowledge of Space and Time The article investigates the function of urban inscriptions as media of knowledge about space and time at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period in the city of Braunschweig. The article starts with the insight that inscriptions in stone or wood on buildings or monuments not only convey knowledge about space and time but at the same time play an essential role in the construction of space and time in the city by the practice of inscribing. The analysis focuses on the steadily deteriorating relationship between the city of Braunschweig and its city lord, the Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, and its material manifestation in building and monument inscriptions. The contribution shows that in the course of the escalating conflict over autonomy, a change in epigraphic habit took placed that aimed at claiming both urban space and its history exclusively on behalf of the city as an expression of its autonomy.

The Virtues of Economy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Political Society ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Distinct Role

The humanist perception of fourteenth-century Rome as a slumbering ruin awaiting the Renaissance and the return of papal power has cast a long shadow on the historiography of the city. Challenging the view, this book argues that Roman political culture underwent dramatic changes in the late Middle Ages, with profound and lasting implications for the city's subsequent development. The book examines the transformation of Rome's governing elites as a result of changes in the city's economic, political, and spiritual landscape. It explores this shift through the history of Roman political society, its identity as an urban commune, and its once-and-future role as the spiritual capital of Latin Christendom. Tracing the contours of everyday Roman politics, the book reframes the reestablishment of papal sovereignty in Rome as the product of synergy between papal ambitions and local political culture. More broadly, it emphasizes Rome's distinct role in evolution of medieval Italy's city-communes.

scholarly journals Review on: Rod Dreher. The Benedict Option. A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. New York: Sentinel, 2017

2019 ◽  
pp. 148-152
Author(s):  
Павел Великанов
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Linear Scheme ◽  
European Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western European ◽  
American Society ◽  
Christian Nation

У Рода Дреера получилась сильная, понятная и мотивирующая книга. Это настоящий эталон миссионерской (в светском значении этого слова) литературы. За ярким предисловием следует достаточно объёмный, но совсем не скучный экскурс в историю западноевропейской философии, в котором эта самая история постепенно складывается в линейную схему. Как считает автор, с позднего Средневековья и по настоящее время западноевропейское (и, как производная от него, американское) общество движется исключительно по пути моральной деградации и отхода от религии. Но это не эсхатологическая картина «охладения любви», о которой говорил Христос Спаситель (Мф. 24, 12). Речь идёт о якобы существующем кризисе одной из человеческих культурных моделей, вполне преодолимом человеческим же усилием. Rod Dreher's book is strong, clear and motivating. This is a true benchmark of missionary (in the secular sense of the word) literature. A vivid preface is followed by a rather voluminous, but not at all boring excursion into the history of Western European philosophy, in which this very history is gradually formed into a linear scheme. According to the author, from the late Middle Ages to the present, Western European (and, as a derivative of it, American) society has been moving exclusively along the path of moral degradation and departure from religion. But this is not the eschatological picture of the "cooling down of love" of which Christ the Saviour spoke (Matthew 24:12). We are talking about the alleged crisis of one of the human cultural models, quite surmountable by human efforts.

scholarly journals Los caminos de la repoblación segoviana en la Transierra entre los siglos XIII y XV. El privilegio de las alberguerías de 1273 = The Roads to Repopulation in the Transierra of Segovia between the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, as of the 1273 Privilege of The Inns

2019 ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Jesús Rodríguez Morales ◽  
David González Agudo
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
A Priority ◽  
The City

Los resultados de este estudio revelan la importancia de las ventas o alberguerías en la Repoblación segoviana al sur de la sierra de Guadarrama durante los siglos XIII-XV. La documentación archivística, que nos ha permitido identificar más de un 70 por ciento de estos establecimientos camineros, describe el trazado de varias vías antiguas de comunicación entre Segovia y sus extremos del Reino de Toledo. Las alberguerías segovianas se convertirían en un objetivo prioritario de la depredación señorial tardomedieval. Muchas ventas se vieron envueltas en disputas jurisdiccionales y fueron el origen de poblaciones modernas.AbstractThis study highlights the relevance of medieval inns (ventas or alberguerías) in the repopulation of Segovia’s southern plains beyond the Guadarrama mountain range, between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Archival records have allowed us to identify 75 percent of these road hostels and describe several ancient routes between the city of Segovia and its southernmost limits in the kingdom of Toledo. Segovian inns would become a priority target for seigneurial abuse in the late Middle Ages. Most of these establishments were involved in jurisdictional disputes and were the origin of modern villages and towns.

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