Roadworks Medieval Britain, Medieval Roads

Informationen zum Autor Valerie Allen is Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Ruth Evans is Professor of English at Saint Louis University Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Roads and writing - Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans1. Sources for the English medieval road system - Paul Hindle2. Once a highway, always a highway: roads and English law, c.1150-1300 - Alan Cooper3. When things break: mending roads, being social - Valerie Allen4. The word on the street: Chaucer and the regulation of nuisance in post-plague London - Sarah Rees Jones5. Getting there: wayfinding in the Middle Ages - Ruth Evans6. The function of material and spiritual roads in the English eremitic tradition - Michelle M. Sauer7. The Royal Itinerary and roads in England under Edward I - Michael Prestwich8. The pilgrimage road in late medieval literature Shayne - Aaron Legassie9. The romance of the road in Athelston and two late medieval Robin Hood ballads - Chris Chism10. London: the hub of an English river transport network, 1250-1550 - Claire Martin11. Conquest, roads and resistance in medieval Wales - Dylan Foster Evans12. Trackless, impenetrable and under-developed? Roads, colonisation and environmental transformation in the Anglo-Scottish border zone c.1100 to c.1300 - Richard OramIndex

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• Assisted by: Allen Valerie (Editor), Evans Ruth (Editor), Anke Bernau (Editor), Ruth Evans (Editor), Evans Ruth (Editor), Allen Valerie (Editor), Valerie Allen (Editor)
• Authors: Ruth Evans, Valerie Evans Allen
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.01.2016
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9780719085062
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8506-2
• Pages: 384
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Wales, Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Scotland, itineraries, CE period up to c 1500, Networks, Medieval History, History and Archaeology, Medieval Literature, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literature: history and criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, England; itineraries; medieval literature; medieval roads; navigable rivers; networks; public works; Roman roads; Scotland; Wales, Roman roads, navigable rivers, public works, medieval roads