| Description |
xi, 367 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Manchester medieval literature and culture
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Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-359) and index. |
| Summary |
"Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales and Scotland. It looks afresh at the relationship between the road as a material condition of daily life and the formation of local and national communities, arguing that the business of road maintenance, road travel and wayfinding constitutes social bonds. It challenges the long-held picture of a medieval Britain lacking in technological sophistication, passively inheriting Roman roads and never engineering any of its own. Previous studies of medieval infrastructure tend to be discipline-specific and technical. This accessible collection draws out the imaginative, symbolic, and cultural significance of the road. The key audience for this book is scholars of medieval Britain (early and late) in all disciplines. Its theoretical foundations will also ensure an audience among scholars of cultural studies, especially those in urban studies, transport studies, and economic history"--Publisher description. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Roads and writing / Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans -- Sources for the English medieval road system / Paul Hindle -- Once a highway, always a highway : roads and English law, c. 1150-1300 / Alan Cooper -- When things break : mending roads, being social / Valerie Allen -- Word on the street : Chaucer and the regulation of nuisance in post-plague London / Sarah Rees Jones -- Getting there : wayfinding in the Middle Ages / Ruth Evans -- Function of material and spiritual roads in the English eremitic tradition / Michelle M. Sauer -- Royal itinerary and roads in England under Edward I / Michael Prestwich -- Pilgrimage road in late medieval English literature / Shayne Aaron Legassie -- Romance of the road in Athelston and two late medieval Robin Hood ballads / Christine Chism -- London: the hub of an English river transport ntework, c. 1250-1550 / Claire A. Martin -- Conquest, roads and resistance in medieval Wales / Dylan Foster Evans -- Trackless, impenetrable and underdeveloped? : roads, colonization and environmental transformation in the Anglo-Scottish border zone, c. 1100 to c. 1300 / Richard Oram. |
| Subject |
Roads -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.
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Roads. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Civilization. |
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 1066-1485.
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| Chronological Term |
1066-1485 |
| Subject |
Travel, Medieval.
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Travel, Medieval. |
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Roads in literature.
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Roads in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Allen, Valerie (Valerie Jane Grace), editor.
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Evans, Ruth, 1954- editor.
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| Added Title |
Medieval Britain, medieval roads |
| ISBN |
0719085063 |
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9780719085062 |
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