City and Cosmos

Drawing upon original accounts, illustrations and maps from across medieval Europe, and on science, religion, art, literature, drama, and architecture of the Latin West, City and Cosmos offers an innovative interpretation of how medieval Christians saw their urban worlds. Linking together textual and visual evidence, it examines how the city was understood simultaneously as a 'body' writ large and as a scaled-down version of the cosmos, each sharing common spatial forms and functional ordering.