Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World

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Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World by Howe, Nicholas, 9780268028626
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  • ISBN: 9780268028626 | 0268028621
  • Cover: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 3/1/2002

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Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World contains original essays by five leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, and literature on the ways in which communities were imagined and built between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. These essays, which function as case studies, range geographically from Europe to Africa, the Near East to regions of Latin America. While acknowledging major factors that affect community -- such as religious belief, imperial expansion, and warfare -- these studies focus on precise examples and moments in the pre-modern world.

Giles Constable discusses the ways in which monastic vows of service to God served as the basis for communities of monks in Europe in the Middle Ages. Anthony Cutler explores the means by which Byzantine and Islamic communities were created and maintained through the use of visual and textual signs. Annabel Patterson draws on visual images and representations to explore how endangered Catholic communities struggled to survive in Reformation England. Richard Kagan offers a survey of city i