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Mapping the medieval city : space, place and identity in Chester c.1200-1600 / edited by Catherine A. M. Clarke ; contributors, Robert W. Barrett [and ten others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Religion & culture in the Middle Ages.
- Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chester (England)--History.
- Chester (England).
- Chester (England)--Civilization.
- Chester (England)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, [Wales] : University of Wales Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This ground-breaking volume brings together contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines (including literary studies, history, geography and archaeology) to investigate questions of space, place and identity in the medieval city. Using Chester as a case study - with attention to its location on the border between England and Wales, its rich multi-lingual culture and surviving material fabric - the essays seek to recover the experience and understanding of the urban space by individuals and groups within the medieval city, and to offer new readings from the vantage-point of twenty-
- Contents:
- Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; Figures; Introduction: Medieval Chester: Views from the Walls; Urban Mappings: Visualizing Late Medieval Chester inCartographic and Textual Form; Framing Medieval Chester: the Landscape of UrbanBoundaries; St Werburgh's, St John's and the Liber Luciani De LaudeCestrie; The Spatial Hermeneutics of Lucian's De Laude Cestrie; '3e beoð þe ancren of Englond . . . as þah 3e weren an cuuentof ... Chester': Liminal Spaces and the Anchoritic life inMedieval Chester
- Sanctity and the City: Sacred Space in Henry Bradshaw's Lifeof St WerburgePlotting Chester on the National Map: Richard Pynson's 1521printing of Henry Bradshaw's Life of St Werburge; The Outside Within: Medieval Chester and North Wales as aSocial Space; Mapping the Migrants: Welsh, Manx and Irish Settlers infifteenth-century Chester; Leeks for Livery: Consuming Welsh Difference in the ChesterShepherds' Play; Remembering Anglo-Saxon Mercia in late medieval andearly modern Chester; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-20103-2
- 0-7083-2393-6
- OCLC:
- 768082857
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