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Art of Medieval Urbanism:

Parthenay in Romanesque Aquitaine
  • ISBN-13: 9780271029566
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Robert A. Maxwell
  • Price: AUD $225.00
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2008
  • Format: Hardback 400 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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The Art of Medieval Urbanism examines the role of monumental sculpture and architecture in the medieval cityscape, offering a pathbreaking interpretation of the relationships among art, architecture, and the history of urbanism. In the first study of its kind, Robert Maxwell shifts attention away from the great Gothic cities of the later Middle Ages to focus on the urban context of art making in the earlier Romanesque era.

Maxwell concentrates on Parthenay, a flourishing town in eleventh- and twelfth-century Aquitaine. Exploring Parthenay’s exceptionally well-preserved structures, the author charts two centuries of urban development in southwestern France. Drawing on the methods of historical anthropology, Maxwell brings the monumental arts into dialogue with courtly romance literature, the iconography of seals and coins, history writing, and contemporary mythologies of place to show how the urban experience inflected the invention of history, aristocratic self-fashioning, and urban identity. Maxwell’s interdisciplinary approach shows that medieval urbanism should be understood as a fabric of constructed identities of history, self, and place grounded in the monumental arts. The Art of Medieval Urbanism offers a fresh model for urban studies and proposes a new approach to the study of medieval art by restoring an urban dimension to our view of Romanesque production.


Contents
 
 
 
List of Illustrations
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
 
 
 
1. Parthenay and the Landscape of Romanesque Aquitaine
 
2. From Castrum to Oppidum: Constructing a Domain
 
3. Style and the Politics of Urbanization
 
4. Constructing an Urban Identity
 
5. Constructing History: Family Romance and Urban Legends
 
6. From Castrum to Signum: An Iconography of Urbanism
 
7. The End of an Era?
 
 
 
 
 
Epilogue: Urban Orientations
 
Appendixes
 
A. Foundation Charter of St-Paul (ca. 1070–1075)
 
B. Foundation Charter of St-Pierre (1092)
 
C. Donation Charter of St-Pierre (1119)
 
Notes
 
Bibliography
 
Index
 
Afterword
 
 
 
 
 

“The book is handsomely produced with excellent graphics and phased plans of Parthenay and the region. The Art of Medieval Urbanism will be the definitive statement on Parthenay and on visual approaches to urbanism, and will serve scholars and students well for years to come.”

—Sheila Bonde, JSAH

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