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This book explores medieval cityscapes within the modern urban environment, using place as a catalyst to forge connections between past and present, and investigating timely questions concerning theoretical approaches to medieval urban heritage, as well as the presentation and interpretation of that heritage for public audiences. Written by a specialist in literary and cultural history with substantial experience of multi-disciplinary research into medieval towns, 'Medieval Cityscapes Today' teases out stories and strata of meaning from the urban landscape, bringing techniques of close reading to the material fabric of the city, as well as textual artefacts associated with it.

Cities and towns, Medieval. --- City and town life --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Historic sites --- Chester. --- Heritage Studies. --- Medieval Cities. --- Medieval Studies. --- Rouen. --- Swansea. --- Urban History. --- Winchester. --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Historic site interpretation --- Interpretive programs of historic sites --- Interpretation of cultural and natural resources --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Medieval cities and towns --- History --- Interpretive programs. --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Geography. --- To 1500

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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. The volume includes new interpretations of well-known sources and features such as the Chester Whistun Plays and the city s Rows and walls, but also includes discussions of less-studied material such as Lucian s In Praise of Chester one of the earliest examples of urban encomium from England and an important text for understanding the medieval city and the wealth of medieval Welsh poetry relating to Chester. Certain key themes emerge across the essays within this volume, including relations between the Welsh and English, formulations of centre and periphery, nation and region, different kinds of mapping and the visual and textual representation of place, borders and boundaries, uses of the past in the production of identity, and the connections between discourses of gender and space. The volume seeks to generate conversation and debate amongst scholars of different disciplines, working across different locations and periods, and to open up directions for future work on space, place and identity in the medieval city."

Chester (England) --- History. --- Civilization. --- Social life and customs.

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Pastoral and locus amoenus traditions in Medieval English literature, and the early mythologisation of English landscape, space and identity through pastoral topoi.

Landscape in literature. --- English literature --- National characteristics, English, in literature. --- Nationalism and literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- England --- In literature. --- Bede. --- English landscape. --- Medieval English literature. --- Old English poetry. --- fourteenth century. --- identity. --- locus amoenus traditions. --- monastic houses. --- mythologisation. --- pastoral. --- regional monastic houses. --- space. --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- PAYSAGES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- 1100-1500 (MOYEN-ANGLAIS) --- 450-1100 (VIEIL ANGLAIS) --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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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-

Chester (England) --- Chester (England) --- Chester (England) --- History. --- Civilization. --- Social life and customs.