Although the city as a central entity did not simply disappear with the Fall of the Roman Empire, the development of urban space at least since the twelfth cent

Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to cons

The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and thr

'Topos in Utopia' examines early modern literary utopias' and intentional communities' social and cultural conception of space. Starting from Thomas More's semi

This volume is a collection of essays focusing on marginalized women mostly in Central and Eastern Europe from around 1350 to 1650. "Other" women are discussed