Mapping Cosmopolis: Moral Topographies of the Medieval City
Keith Lilley
Cosmopolis is a concept that has long history in many cultures around the globe. It mirroring of ‘social’ and ‘natural’ worlds, such one seen order structures other—a mutual ‘mapping’. In this paper I examine how presence cosmopolis—a Christianised cosmopolis European Middle Ages—was made evident representation formation cities at time. reveal dualism between social spatial ordering both city cosmos which defined reinforced boundaries urban landscapes, for example 11th 12th centuries. Recently, Toulmin (1992) taken idea to argue it been persistent Western-Enlightenment science, philosophy, religion—a ‘hidden agenda modernity’. contend that, as an idea, much earlier circulation thinking, not least Ages. Locating medieval modern periods then begs question what really makes two distinct separate? All too often human geographers have emphasised discontinuities ‘medieval’ ‘modern’ age, locating ‘rise modernity’ some time Enlightenment period. However, ‘mapping’ reveals are continuities, binding space together, when looked begin help query modernity itself.
Environment And Planning D: Society And Space