Landscapes of fear : perceptions of nature and the city in the Middle Ages
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Landscapes of fear : perceptions of nature and the city in the Middle Ages
Polity Press, 1994
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  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
"First published in Italy as follows: Part I, Quando il cielo s'oscura. 1987. Part II, La pietra viva. 1988. Part III, Solitudo carnis. 1990."--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. [202]-213
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This is a brilliant and original study of the attitudes of town-dwellers in the Middle Ages to nature, their surroundings, and the human body. Fumagalli describes the natural landscape of Italy in the early Middle Ages as a sinister wilderness of dense forest and ruined towns, destroyed in the barbarian invasions or abandoned after a long decline.
He shows how, in a period of growth in the ninth century, Italian towns became significant centres of power, and their populations set out to restore their sense of superiority over the wild countryside and its peasant inhabitants. He describes how the draining and massive forest-clearance which they subsequently undertook led to a catastrophic ecological imbalance, devastating floods and violent uprisings.
Fumagalli describes the living conditions of townspeople, peasants, priests and the nobility during this time of upheaval; he examines their behaviour in a hierarchy, as well as among peers, their fear of death and of the adverse forces of nature. What was it, he asks, that made people in the Middle Ages fear solar eclipses more than wars?
Drawing on a rich variety of literary and visual sources, including paintings, frescoes and sculpture, Fumagalli analyses medieval attitudes to the body and its relationship to the spirit, arguing that, from the sixteenth century onwards, these changed profoundly, depending on a combination of economic, political and cultural factors.
目次
Translator's. Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Part I: When the Heavens Darken.
1. The Domain of Shadows.
2. Nature.
3. Death.
4. Beauty.
5. Hunting.
6. Violence.
7. War.
8. The Nobility.
9 The Priesthood.
10. Spiritual Crises.
Part II: The Living Rock: The City and Nature in the Middle Ages.
11. Dead Cities.
12. Fortress Cities.
13. The Myth of the City.
14. The Changing Countryside.
15. The Changing City.
16. The Merchant Ethic.
17. The Impact of the City on the Landscape.
18. Nature as Friend and Foe.
19. The Ravaged Countryside.
20. The City and the Dead.
21. Animals in City and Country.
Part III: Solitude of the Flesh.
22. The World Contemned.
23. The Elusiveness of Perfection.
24. Man's Disgrace.
25. From Mortification to Insensibility.
26. In Defence of the Body.
27. The Body Vindicated.
28. Forbidden Pleasures.
29. Brother Ass the Body.
30. Women.
Note on Sources and Further Reading.
Index.
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