Urbanity and Society in the Middle Ages

The fourteenth and fteenth centuries were an era of rapid expansion in urban fabric which showed great sophistication in the use of architectural language  to shape space and convey shifting meanings.

Prague, Vienna and Krakow, all three seats of powerful courts, emancipated civic authorities,  new universities and important artistic centres, developed impressive new districts, built bridges, gates, palaces, town halls and cathedrals.

This lecture examines the relationship between form, function and symbolic interpretation, expanded over the three-dimensional canvas of these medieval cities.

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