Mapping the Medieval City

Mapping the Medieval City Space, Place and Identity in Chester, c. 1200-1600 / [electronic resource] : edited by Catherine A.M. Clarke. - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (262 p.) - Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages . - Religion & culture in the Middle Ages. .

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.

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-

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HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain


Chester (England)--History.
Chester (England)--Civilization.
Chester (England)--Social life and customs.


Electronic books.

DA690.C5 M29 2011

942.714