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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-

Title 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].
Publisher Cardiff, [Wales] : University of Wales Press
Creation Date 2011
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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
Series Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
Extent 1 online resource (262 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2011
National Library system number 997010717432405171
MARC RECORDS
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