Mapping the Medieval City

Space, Place and Identity in Chester c.1200-1600

Author(s) Catherine Clarke

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Criticism, Medieval

Series: Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages

  • May 2011 · 304 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Hardback - 9780708323922
  • · eBook - pdf - 9780708323939
  • · Paperback - 9780708326527
  • · eBook - epub - 9781783164615

About The Book

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-first century disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.

About the Author(s)

Author(s): Catherine Clarke

Catherine A.M. Clarke is Professor in the English Department at the University of Southampton, having previously taught at Swansea University and Oxford University.

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