Mapping the Medieval City
Space, Place and Identity in Chester C.1200-1600
By (author) Catherine A M Clarke
Publication date:
31 May 2011Length of book:
304 pagesPublisher
University of Wales PressDimensions:
216x138mmISBN-13: 9780708323922
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 multi-lingual culture and surviving material fabric - the essays seek to recover the experience and understanding of the urban space by individuals and groups within the medieval city, and to offer new readings from the vantage-point of twenty-first century disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.