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Conclusion: An Imagined City

Conclusion: An Imagined City © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI : 10.1163/157006711X598857 Medieval Encounters 17 (2011) 566-571 brill.nl/me Medieval Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture Encounters in Confluence and Dialogue Conclusion: An Imagined City Louis I. Hamilton a, * and Stefano Riccioni b a Religious Studies Department, Faulkner House 303, Drew University, 36 Madison Avenue, Madison NJ 07940, USA b Faculty of Arts, Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy *Corresponding author, e-mail: lhamilto@drew.edu I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades’ curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know this be would the same as telling you nothing. The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past. . . . Italo Calvino 1 The city of Rome, as Jerusalem, is a city that historians have long realized exists first and foremost as a city of the imagination and an object of desire. Describing the city, as Calvino observed, is in reality an exercise in calcu- lating the relationship between its physical reality and its stories about itself. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Medieval Encounters Brill

Conclusion: An Imagined City

Hamilton, Louis I.; Riccioni, Stefano
Medieval Encounters , Volume 17 (4-5): 566 – Jan 1, 2011
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI : 10.1163/157006711X598857 Medieval Encounters 17 (2011) 566-571 brill.nl/me Medieval Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture Encounters in Confluence and Dialogue Conclusion: An Imagined City Louis I. Hamilton a, * and Stefano Riccioni b a Religious Studies Department, Faulkner House 303, Drew University, 36 Madison Avenue, Madison NJ 07940, USA b Faculty of Arts, Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy *Corresponding author, e-mail: lhamilto@drew.edu I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades’ curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know this be would the same as telling you nothing. The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past. . . . Italo Calvino 1 The city of Rome, as Jerusalem, is a city that historians have long realized exists first and foremost as a city of the imagination and an object of desire. Describing the city, as Calvino observed, is in reality an exercise in calcu- lating the relationship between its physical reality and its stories about itself.

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