Main entry:

Fumagalli, Vito.

Title & Author:

Landscapes of fear : perceptions of nature and the city in the Middle Ages / Vito Fumagalli ; translated by Shayne Mitchell.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Cambridge, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1994.

Description:

vi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"First published in Italy as follows: part I, Quando il cielo s'oscura, Il Mulino 1987; part II, La pietra viva, Il Mulino 1988; part III, Solitudo carnis, Il Mulino,1990"--Title page verso.
"First published in Italy as follows: part I, Quando il cielo s'oscura, Il Mulino 1987; part II, La pietra viva, Il Mulino 1988; part III, Solitudo carnis, Il Mulino,1990."-- T.P. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-213) and index.
pt. I. When the Heavens Darken. 1. The Domain of Shadows. 2. Nature. 3. Death. 4. Beauty. 5. Hunting. 6. Violence. 7. War. 8. The Nobility. 9. The Priesthood. 10. Spiritual Crises -- pt. II. The Living Rock: The City and Nature in the Middle Ages. 11. Dead Cities. 12. Fortress Cities. 13. The Myth of the City. 14. The Changing Countryside. 15. The Changing City. 16. The Merchant Ethic. 17. The Impact of the City on the Landscape. 18. Nature as Friend and Foe. 19. The Ravaged Countryside. 20. The City and the Dead. 21. Animals in City and Country -- pt. III. The Solitude of the Flesh. 22. The World Contemned. 23. The Elusiveness of Perfection. 24. Man's Disgrace. 25. From Mortification to Insensibility. 26. In Defence of the Body. 27. The Body Vindicated. 28. Forbidden Pleasures. 29. Brother Ass the Body. 30. Women, the Fragile Sex.
British Library not licensed to copy 0.
Translation of works originally published individually: Pt.1 Quando il cielo s'oscura; Pt.2 La pietra viva; Pt.3 Solitudo carnis.
Dust jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0745607543 (acid-free paper)
9780745607542 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Cities and towns, Medieval Italy.
Social history Medieval, 500-1500.
Human ecology Italy History.
Villes médiévales Italie.
Histoire sociale 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Écologie humaine Italie Histoire.
Cities and towns, Medieval.
Human ecology.
Social history Medieval.
Landschaft
Natur
Wahrnehmung
Mittelalter
Stadtbevölkerung
Mens en natuur.
Cidades (historia)
Nature Religious aspects Christianity.
Human body Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Primitive and Early Church, 30-600.
Italy.
Italien
Western Europe History, to 1453

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121766
Call No.: ID HT115.F87; ID:95-B237
Status: Available