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Mapping the Medieval City: Space, Place and Identity in Chester c. 1200-1600 (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages)
Author(s): Catherine A. M. Clarke
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication Date: February 15, 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 244 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780708323922
- ISBN-13: 0708323928
Book Description
This fascinating volume brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including literary studies, history, geography, and archaeology, to investigate questions of space, place, and identity in the medieval city. Using medieval Chester as a case study—with attention to its location on the border between England and Wales, its rich multilingual culture, and its surviving infrastructure—these contributions recover the experience of medieval city living and in doing so provide fresh perspectives and generate new questions about urban space both during this period and beyond.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“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 that 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, Cardiff University
About the Author
Catherine A. M. Clarke is professor of English at the University of Southampton.
