Mapping the Medieval City

Space, Place and Identity in Chester C.1200-1600

By (author) Catherine A M Clarke

Publication date:

31 May 2011

Length of book:

304 pages

Publisher

University of Wales Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-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.