{"product_id":"practising-community-in-urban-and-rural-eurasia-1000-1600-comparative-and-interdisciplinary-perspectives-9789004465770","title":"Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000–1600): Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume explores social practices of framing, building and enacting community in urban-rural relations across medieval Eurasia. Introducing fresh comparative perspectives on practices and visions of community, it offers a thorough source-based examination of medieval communal life in its sociocultural complexity and diversity in Central and Southeast Europe, South Arabia and Tibet. As multi-layered social phenomena, communities constantly formed, restructured and negotiated internal allegiances, while sharing a topographic living space and joint notions of belonging. The volume challenges disciplinary paradigms and proposes an interdisciplinary set of low-threshold categories and tools for cross-cultural comparison of urban and rural communities in the Global Middle Ages.   Contributors are Maaike van Berkel, Hubert Feiglstorfer, Andre Gingrich, Károly Goda, Elisabeth Gruber, Johann Heiss, Kateřina Horníčková, Eirik Hovden, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari, Odile Kommer, Fabian Kümmeler, Christina Lutter, Judit Majorossy, Ermanno Orlando, and Noha Sadek.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   List of Figures   Abbreviations   Notes on Contributors      1 Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia: Introduction and Practical Approaches    Elisabeth Gruber and Fabian Kümmeler      PART 1: Practising Community in Urban and Rural Spaces   2 Symbols, Signs and Acts of Social Cohesion in the Austrian Danube Region    Elisabeth Gruber      3 Legal, Spatial and Ritual Practices and Visions of Community in Late Medieval Venice: Comparative Perspectives    Ermanno Orlando      4 Balancing a Community’s Food and Water Supply: The Social Impact of Rural-Urban Interdependences in Korčula (Dalmatia) and Ṣaʿda (Yemen)    Fabian Kümmeler and Johann Heiss      5 Conceptualizing City-Hinterland Relations and Governance: Medieval Sanaa as a Case Study    Eirik Hovden, Johann Heiss and Odile Kommer      PART 2: Representing Community through Public Buildings and Performative Culture   6 Public Buildings and\/as Symbolic Framing of Urban-cum-Rural Communal Practice in Western Tibet    Christian Jahoda      7 Material Culture in the Western Himalayas: Mandalic Settlement Patterns and Material Components of the Ritual Space    Hubert Feiglstorfer      8 Image Construction and Community Building in the Spiritual Career of the Buddha in Western Tibet from the Eleventh–Thirteenth Century    Christiane Kalantari      9 Visualising Communities: The Canonry of Třeboň (Southern Bohemia)    Kateřina Horníčková      10 The Monuments of Rasulid Taʿizz: The Physical Construction of Power and Piety    Noha Sadek      PART 3: Practising Community – Forms of Integration and Differentiation   11 Defining Rules of Rural-Urban Flows: Endowments, Authority and Law in Medieval Zaydi Yemen in a Comparative Perspective    Eirik Hovden      12 Constructing Communal Memory through Donations in Medieval East-Central Europe    Judit Majorossy      13 Notes on Foundations and Endowments in Historical Western Tibet (Late Tenth–Fifteenth Century)    Christian Jahoda      14 Binding the Bonds: Metropolitan Modes of Eucharistic Confraternal and Processional Life in Late Medieval East-Central Europe    Károly Goda      15 “To Extol Knowledge”: Celebrating the Completion of Books in Rasulid Yemen    Johann Heiss      16 Building Community with Processions and Endowments    Maaike van Berkel      PART 4: Conclusions   17 Urban Patterns of Belonging by Comparison: Assessing a Work in Progress    Christina Lutter      18 Nodal Conglomerates and Their Visions: Comparative Reflections on Urban-Rural Settings across Asia and Europe (1000–1600 CE)    Andre Gingrich      Bibliography   Index of Geographical Names   Index of Persons","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210824999255,"sku":"9789004465770","price":166.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/practising-community-in-urban-and-rural-eurasia-1000-1600-comparative-and-interdisciplinary-perspectives-9789004465770","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}