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Mapping the Medieval City: Space, Place and Identity in Chester c.1200 1600 (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages)

Mapping the Medieval City: Space, Place and Identity in Chester c.1200 1600 (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages)

by Catherine Clarke (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

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Synopsis

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 multilingual culture and surviving material fabric - the essays recover the experience and understanding of the urban space by individuals and groups within the medieval city, and offer new readings from the vantage-point of twenty-first century disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 15 Jul 2013
ISBN 10: 0708326528
ISBN 13: 9780708326527

Media Reviews
Catherine Clarke's marvellous edited anthology, Mapping the Medieval City, offers a fascinating account of what maps, chronicles, literary texts, and other sources tell us about the multiple and shifting meanings of Chester from c1200-1500. The volume's twelve learned and lucid essays are a must read for anyone interested in not only the particular case of medieval Chester but also, more generally, the history of the city. Kathy Lavezzo, Associate Professor of English, University of Iowa Few material phenomena are as complex as the city. In its border location, the changing form of Chester dramatically reflects the vicissitudes of military, political and economic fortune, and social difference and conflict within. This book is a model of multidisciplinary coherency, with a diverse collection of intelligent and thoughtful papers which not only reveal how medieval men and women in Chester made sense of their habitat for themselves but at the same time map the solid, autonomous reality of the place. John Hines, Professor in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University Clarke has organized an impressive multidisciplinary collection that also works well as a whole. Along with the Mapping Medieval Chester web site she has created a resource that will be of use to a range of scholars and students, and a scholarly project that serves as a model for others in its clarity of purpose and range of applications. Journal of Historical Geography xxx (2014) 1-2 - Christina M. Fitzgerald, The University of Toledo, USA
Author Bio
Catherine A.M. Clarke is Professor in the English Department at the University of Southampton, having previously taught at Swansea University and Oxford University.