UID:
almafu_9959229454702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (300 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-7734-2044-4
Inhalt:
Urban Honor in Spain is an historical study of Spain and the writing technique of laus urbis (praise of the city) during the 15th century. The book begins by providing an overview of laus urbis was developed and codified in oratory and classical literary texts during the Greco-Roman period. The book then explores how this powerful technique re-emerged during the Middle Ages to become a powerful corpus that formed an early national culture by praising cities and nations. In Medieval and Renaissance Spain, laus urbis, provided a sense of local community to city and town dwellers in the indefinite
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Untitled; Epigraph; Introduction; Chapter One: Ancient and Medieval Theory for the Praise of Cities; Chapter Two: Ancient Precedents to Medieval and Humanist Encomia of Cities; Chapter Three: Medieval Latin Encomia of Cities; Chapter Four: Medieval Iberian Laus Hispaniae and Lau Urbis; Chapter Five: Vernacular Praise of City and Kingdom 1300-1460; Chapter Six: The Early Humanist Laus Urbis and Its Adaptation in Spain; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-7734-2561-6
Sprache:
Englisch
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