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Subject(s)

• Roads—Great Britain—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Travel, Medieval [Browse]
• Roads in literature [Browse]
• Great Britain—Civilization—1066-1485 [Browse]

Editor

• Allen, Valerie (Valerie Jane Grace) [Browse]
• Evans, Ruth, 1954- [Browse]

Series

Manchester medieval literature and culture [More in this series]

Summary note

"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.

Bibliographic references

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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Other title(s)

Medieval Britain, medieval roads

ISBN

• 0719085063 (hardback)
• 9780719085062 (hardback)

LCCN

2016301005

OCLC

918261022

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