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.