Mapping the Medieval City

by Clarke, Catherine A. M.

• ISBN13: 9780708323922
• ISBN10: 0708323928
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-15
• Publisher: Univ of Wales Pr

Summary

Cyfrol sy'n edrych ar ddinas Caer fel dinas ganoloesol. Mae'n cwmpasu sawl agwedd, gan gynnwys astudiaethau llenyddol, hanes, daearyddiaeth ac archaeoleg.

Author Biography

Dr Catherine A. M. Clarke is Senior Lecturer in English and Associate Director of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research, Swansea University.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xv
Figures	p. xvi
Introduction: Medieval Chester: Views from the Walls	p. 1 Catherine
Urban Mappings: Visualizing Late Medieval Chester in Cartographic and Textual Form	p. 19 Keith D.
Framing Medieval Chester: the Landscape of Urban Boundaries	p. 42 C. P. Lewis
St Werburgh's, St John's and the Liber Luciani De Laude Cestrie	p. 57 John Doran
The Spatial Hermeneutics of Lucian's De Laude Cestrie	p. 78 Mark Faulkner
'3e beoð be ancren of Englond … as pah 3e weren an cuuent of … Chester': Liminal Spaces and the Anchoritic life in Medieval Chester	p. 99 Liz Herbe
Sanctity and the City: Sacred Space in Henry Bradshaw's Life of St Werburge	p. 114 Laura Varnam
Plotting Chester on the National Map: Richard Pynson's 1521 printing of Henry Bradshaw's Life of St Werburge	p. 131 Cynthia
The Outside Within: Medieval Chester and North Wales as a Social Space	p. 149 Helen Fulton
Mapping the Migrants: Welsh, Manx and Irish Settlers in fifteenth-century Chester	p. 169 Jane Lau
Leeks for Livery: Consuming Welsh Difference in the Chester Shepherds' Play	p. 184 Robert W
Remembering Anglo-Saxon Mercia in late medieval and early modern Chester	p. 201 Catherin
Bibliography	p. 219
Index	p. 235
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