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The aim of this English-language series on medieval studies is to establish a methodical, discerning connection between text analysis and cultural history. The series addresses the fundamental cultural themes of the medieval world from the perspective of literary studies and the humanities. These fundamental themes are the culture-formative conceptualizations, world views, social structures and everyday conditions of medieval life, namely, childhood and old age, sexuality, religion, medicine, rituals, work, poverty and wealth, superstition, earth and cosmos, city and country, war, emotions, communication, travel etc. Fundamentals of Medieval Culture pursues important current discussions in the field and provides a forum for interdisciplinary medieval research. The series is open to anthologies as well as monographs. The aim of the series is to present compendium-like works on the central topics of medieval cultural history that provide a sound overview of a limited subject area from the perspective of various disciplines. On the whole, the series thus presents an encyclopedia of medieval literary and cultural history and its main topics. Intro -- Introduction. Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: A Significant Domain Ignored For Too Long by Modern Research? -- 1. Critical Inquiry: The Relevance of Rural Space -- 2. Natural Space and the Medieval Encyclopedia -- 3. The Spatial Turn in Medieval and Premodern Studies -- 4. Rural Space and Ecocriticism -- 5. Space and Historical-Literary Investigations -- 6. Perception of Rural Space in The Voyage of St. Brendan: An Early-Medieval Voice -- 7. Nature in a Spanish Medieval Epic Poem: El Poema de Mío Cid: Human Drama in the Wilderness -- 8. The Mountain in the Art and Literature of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: The Most Massive Challenge in Nature -- 9. Climbing the Mountain, or Ascending to the Renaissance? Franceso Petrarca's Reflections on Nature -- 10. Oswald von Wolkenstein: The Aristocrat versus the Peasant. Secret Longing for Life in Rural Space? -- 11. The Perception of the Natural World: The Testimony of Medieval Courtly Literature -- 12. Growing up in the Wilderness: Youthful Experiences in the Forest: Perceval/Parzival in the Romances by Chrétien de Troye and Wolfram von Eschenbach -- 13. Ominous Approaches: Wolfram von Eschenbach's Titurel: Seeking Refuge from Society in the Forest -- 14. Nature and the Courtly World: Literary Reflections on Rural Space in High Medieval Literature -- 15. The Protagonist's Existential Test in Nature: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- 16. Love (?) in the Mountains: Juan Ruiz's Libro de buen amor. Late-Medieval Spanish Reflections on Rural Space -- 17. Rural Space in Late-Medieval Short Verse Narratives -- 18. The Court, the City, and the Rural Space in Boccaccio's Decameron -- 19. William Langland's Piers the Plowman: Late-Medieval English Religious and Social Reflections.
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