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Roadworks : medieval Britain, medieval roads / edited by Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans.
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English
Published/Created
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
©2016
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xi, 367 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
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HE363.G7 R63 2016
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Subject(s)
Roads
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Great Britain
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History
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To 1500
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Travel, Medieval
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Roads in literature
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Great Britain
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Civilization
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1066-1485
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Editor
Allen, Valerie (Valerie Jane Grace)
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Evans, Ruth, 1954-
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Series
Manchester medieval literature and culture
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"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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-359) and index.
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
The 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
The function of material and spiritual roads in the English eremitic tradition / Michelle M. Sauer
The royal itinerary and roads in England under Edward I / Michael Prestwich
The pilgrimage road in late medieval English literature / Shayne Aaron Legassie
The 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.
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Medieval Britain, medieval roads
ISBN
0719085063 (hardback)
9780719085062 (hardback)
LCCN
2016301005
OCLC
918261022
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