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Introduction / Caroline J. Goodson, Anne E. Lester, and Carol Symes

Constructing and restructuring

Writing and restoration in Rome : inscriptions, statues, and the late antique preservation of buildings / Gregor Kalas

How to found an Islamic city / Hugh Kennedy

Metropolitan architecture, demographics, and the urban identity of Paris in the thirteenth century / Meredith Cohen

Topographies as texts

The meaning of topography in Umayyad Córdoba / Ann Christys

Crafting a charitable landscape : urban topographies in charters and testaments from medieval Champagne / Anne E. Lester

Anger and spectacle in late medieval Rome : gauging emotion in urban topography / Joëlle Rollo-Koster and Alizah Holstein

Citizens and saints

Local sanctity and civic typology in early medieval Pavia : the example of the cult of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny / Scott G. Bruce

Cities and their saints in England, circa 1150-1300 : the development of bourgeois values in the cults of Saint William of York and Saint Kenelm of Winchcombe / Sarah Rees Jones

The myth of urban unity : religion and social performance in late medieval Braunschweig / Franz-Josef Arlinghaus

Agency and authority

City as charter : charity and the lordship of English towns, 1170-1250 / Sethina Watson

"The best place in the world" : imaging urban prisons in late medieval Italy / Guy Geltner

Out in the open, in Arras : sightlines, soundscapes, and the shaping of a medieval public sphere / Carol Symes.

City and town life > History > To 1500.

Cities and towns, Medieval > History > Sources.

City and town life > History > To 1500 > Sources.

Social networks > History > To 1500.

Space perception > History > To 1500.

Religion and sociology > History > To 1500.

Charities > History > To 1500.

Public institutions > History > To 1500.

Human ecology > History > To 1500.