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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Cities have deep meaning in the human imagination for the city is much more than simply a collection of people and houses – it is an idea. In City and Cosmos Keith D. Lilley sets out to show how medieval Christians viewed their urban surroundings symboli- cally both as a ‘body’ writ large and as a miniature model of the wider world. For the first time this book explores how material and imagined forms of European medieval towns and cities were imbued with Christian meanings deriving from contemporary beliefs and practices. Drawing on a wide variety of sources including manuscript accounts visual art science literature drama and architectural history Lilley presents an innovative inter- pretation of how medieval towns and cities were understood by those who shaped them. He combines textual and visual evidence to reveal how these ‘urban worlds’ were imagined formed and experienced at the time (SP)