Mapping the Medieval City
Space, Place and Identity in Chester c. 1200-1600
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Mapping the Medieval City
Space, Place and Identity in Chester c. 1200-1600
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.
304 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2011
Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
History: European History
Reviews
Table of Contents
Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
Figures
1. Introduction: Medieval Chester: Views form the Walls
Catherine A. M. Clarke
2. Urban Mappings: Visualizing Late Medieval Chester in Cartographic and Textual Form
Keith D. Lilley
3. Framing Medieval Chester: the Landscape of Urban Boundaries
C. P. Lewis
4. St Werburgh’s, St John’s and the Liber Luciani De Laude Cestrie
John Doran
5. The Spatial Hermeneutics of Lucian’s De Laude Cestrie
Mark Faulkner
6. ’3e beoð þe ancren of Englond . . . as þah 3e weren an cuuent of . . . Chester’: Liminal Spaces and the Anchoritic life in Medieval Chester
Liz Herbert McAvoy
7. Sanctity and the City: Sacred Space in Henry Bradshaw’s Life of St Werburge
Laura Varnam
8. Plotting Chester on the National Map: Richard Pynson’s 1521 printing of Henry Bradshaw’s Life of St Werburge
Cynthia Turner Camp
9. The Outside Within: Medieval Chester and North Wales as a Social Space
Helen Fulton
10. Mapping the Migrants: Welsh, Manx and Irish Settlers in fifteenth-century Chester
Jane Laughton
11. Leeks for Livery: Consuming Welsh Difference in the Chester Shepherds’ Play
Robert W. Barrett, Jnr
12. Remembering Anglo-Saxon Mercia in late medieval and early modern Chester
Catherine A. M. Clarke
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
Figures
1. Introduction: Medieval Chester: Views form the Walls
Catherine A. M. Clarke
2. Urban Mappings: Visualizing Late Medieval Chester in Cartographic and Textual Form
Keith D. Lilley
3. Framing Medieval Chester: the Landscape of Urban Boundaries
C. P. Lewis
4. St Werburgh’s, St John’s and the Liber Luciani De Laude Cestrie
John Doran
5. The Spatial Hermeneutics of Lucian’s De Laude Cestrie
Mark Faulkner
6. ’3e beoð þe ancren of Englond . . . as þah 3e weren an cuuent of . . . Chester’: Liminal Spaces and the Anchoritic life in Medieval Chester
Liz Herbert McAvoy
7. Sanctity and the City: Sacred Space in Henry Bradshaw’s Life of St Werburge
Laura Varnam
8. Plotting Chester on the National Map: Richard Pynson’s 1521 printing of Henry Bradshaw’s Life of St Werburge
Cynthia Turner Camp
9. The Outside Within: Medieval Chester and North Wales as a Social Space
Helen Fulton
10. Mapping the Migrants: Welsh, Manx and Irish Settlers in fifteenth-century Chester
Jane Laughton
11. Leeks for Livery: Consuming Welsh Difference in the Chester Shepherds’ Play
Robert W. Barrett, Jnr
12. Remembering Anglo-Saxon Mercia in late medieval and early modern Chester
Catherine A. M. Clarke
Bibliography
Index