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Roadworks : medieval Britain, medieval roads / edited by Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Manchester medieval literature and culture.
- Manchester medieval literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roads--Great Britain--History--To 1500.
- Roads.
- Travel, Medieval.
- Roads in literature.
- Great Britain--Civilization--1066-1485.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 367 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This collection of essays on roads in Britain in the Middle Ages addresses the topic from a cultural, anthropological and literary point of view, as well as a historical and archaeological one. Taking up Jacques Derrida's proposal that 'the history of writing and the history of the road' be 'meditated upon' together, it considers how roads 'write' landscapes. The anthology sets Britain's thoroughfares against the backdrop of the extant Roman road system and argues for a technique of road construction and care that is distinctively medieval. As well as synthesizing information on medieval road terminology, roads as rights of passage and the road as an idea as much as a physical entity, individual essays look afresh at sources for the study of the medieval English road system, legal definitions of the highway, road-breaking and road-mending, wayfinding, the architecture of the street and its role in popular urban government, English hermits and the road as spiritual metaphor, royal itineraries, pilgrimage roads, roads in medieval English romances, English river transport, roads in medieval Wales, and roads in the Anglo-Scottish border zone.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Roads and writing / Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans
- Sources for the English medieval road system / Paul Hindle
- Once a highway, always a highway : roads and English law, c. 1150-1300 / Alan Cooper
- When things break : mending roads, being social / Valerie Allen
- The word on the street : Chaucer and the regulation of nuisance in post-plague London / Sarah Rees Jones
- Getting there : wayfinding in the Middle Ages / Ruth Evans
- The function of material and spiritual roads in the English eremitic tradition / Michelle M. Sauer
- The royal itinerary and roads in England under Edward I / Michael Prestwich
- The pilgrimage road in late medieval English literature / Shayne Aaron Legassie
- The romance of the road in Athelston and two late medieval Robin Hood ballads / Christine Chism
- London: the hub of an English river transport ntework, c. 1250-1550 / Claire A. Martin
- Conquest, roads and resistance in medieval Wales / Dylan Foster Evans
- Trackless, impenetrable and underdeveloped? : roads, colonization and environmental transformation in the Anglo-Scottish border zone, c. 1100 to c. 1300 / Richard Oram.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 May 2026).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781784996086
- 1784996084
- 9781526104267
- 1526104261
- 9781784996703
- 178499670X
- OCLC:
- 931628413
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