Buch, Deutsch, Band 6, 210 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 324 g
Reihe: Forschungen des Instituts für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit
Internationales Round Table Gespräch Krems an der Donau 2. und 3. Oktober 2000
Buch, Deutsch, Band 6, 210 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 324 g
Reihe: Forschungen des Instituts für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit
ISBN: 978-3-7001-3013-0
Verlag: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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Streets play a decisive role in the framework of any kind of communication – also in the late Middle Ages. They are not only to be seen as routes for traffic and transport, but as a part of public space serving manifold other functions and practices. They were also subject to different judgements, evaluations and connotations, to various norms and controls. This can be shown with the help of a variety of written records, as well as through religious and secular visual images, and other surviving original evidence. Comparative analysis proves adequate and indispensable. The decisive aspects of the street and its social function are to be taken in account in their mutual connections – in the context of representation and prestige, of symbolic and metaphoric significances, of law, order and religion, or of general efforts of improvement and innovation in the period.