The medieval town imagined: representations of urban culture in medieval literature

想象中的中世纪城镇：中世纪文学中城市文化的表现。从12世纪到14世纪，随着西北欧城镇的规模和数量的扩大，城市化对经济和社会变化的文化反应在文学文本中得到了阐述。该项目旨在研究中世纪英语、威尔士和法国文学中城镇和城市文化的表现方式，突出文本对城镇、城镇居民和城市经济影响的态度。由此产生的专著和参考文献数据库将为封建贵族与新兴城市精英之间的竞争关系提供新的证据。

The medieval town imagined: representations of urban culture in medieval literature. As the size and number of towns in north-west Europe expanded from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, the cultural response to economic and social changes produced by urbanisation was articulated in literary texts. The project aims to examine ways in which towns and urban culture are represented in medieval English, Welsh and French literature, foregrounding the attitudes constructed by the texts towards towns, townspeople and the impact of the urban economy. The resulting monograph and database of references will provide new evidence for the competitive relationships between feudal nobilities and emerging urban elites.