Space, Place and Identity in Chester, c. 1200-1600 Clarke, Catherine A. M. text Electronic books. xx Cardiff University of Wales Press 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (262 p.) 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- 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. edited by Catherine A.M. Clarke. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain Chester (England) History Chester (England) Civilization Chester (England) Social life and customs DA690.C5 M29 2011 942.714 Clarke, Catherine A.M. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, c2011 9780708323939 (electronic bk.) 0708323936 (electronic bk.) http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=819810 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=408778 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=819810 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=408778 EBLCP 111212 20200709055438.0 ocn768082857 eng