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Book SynopsisChapter 1.The Medieval City: Stones, Communities, Concepts.- Chapter 2. Civic Commitment in the Post-Roman West: The Visigothic Case Study.- Chapter 3. Water Provision in Early Islamic Cities: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Urban Peter.-Chapter 4. Places of Love and Honour: Cities and Almost-Cities in the Carolingian World.- Chapter 5. Expressing Civic Pride in Stone. Church Towers and Town Halls in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Low Countries.- Chapter 6. The Saint and the Citizens: Scripting Civic Behaviour in Early Medieval Hagiography.- Chapter 7. Pleasing God, Serving the Citizens: Charity and Water Supply in Cairo and Baghdad.- Chapter 8. Thinking about Urbanity, Urban Settlements, Literacy, and Exclusion. The Case of Medieval Scandinavia.- Chapter 9. Doing the Dirty Work: Ribalds, Armies and Public Health in the Southern Low Countries, 1100-1500,- Chapter 10. Civic Cohesion in Turbulent Times: Galbert of Bruges, the Urban Community and the Murder of the Count of Flanders in 1127.- Chapter 11. Creating Communities and Discussing Citizenship through Juridical Parody (France and Burgundy, Fifteenth Century). Chapter 12. Protecting the civitas, Warning the civis: Spiritual Defences in Two Sermons by Maximus of Turin.- Chapter 13. All Manner of Precious Stones: Civic Discourse and the Construction of the Early Medieval City.- Chapter 14. Imagining Rome: Reading a Ninth-Century Carolingian Manuscript in its Monastic Context.- Chapter 15. The Way to Rome in the Medieval Welsh Imagination.- Chapter 16. Citizenship as Performance.
