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.
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.
Valerie Allen is Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Ruth Evans is Professor of English at Saint Louis University
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Introduction: Roads and writing Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans 1. Sources for the English medieval road system Paul Hindle 2. Once a highway, always a highway: roads and English law, c.1150 1300 Alan Cooper 3. When things break: mending roads, being social Valerie Allen 4. The word on the street: Chaucer and the regulation of nuisance in post plague London Sarah Rees Jones 5. Getting there: wayfinding in the Middle Ages Ruth Evans 6. The function of material and spiritual roads in the English eremitic tradition Michelle M. Sauer 7. The Royal Itinerary and roads in England under Edward I Michael Prestwich 8. The pilgrimage road in late medieval literature Shayne Aaron Legassie 9. The romance of the road in Athelston and two late medieval Robin Hood ballads Chris Chism 10. London: the hub of an English river transport network, 1250 1550 Claire Martin 11. Conquest, roads and resistance in medieval Wales Dylan Foster Evans 12. Trackless, impenetrable and under developed? Roads, colonisation and environmental transformation in the Anglo Scottish border zone c.1100 to c.1300 Richard Oram Index
Introduction: Roads and writing Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans 1. Sources for the English medieval road system Paul Hindle 2. Once a highway, always a highway: roads and English law, c.1150 1300 Alan Cooper 3. When things break: mending roads, being social Valerie Allen 4. The word on the street: Chaucer and the regulation of nuisance in post plague London Sarah Rees Jones 5. Getting there: wayfinding in the Middle Ages Ruth Evans 6. The function of material and spiritual roads in the English eremitic tradition Michelle M. Sauer 7. The Royal Itinerary and roads in England under Edward I Michael Prestwich 8. The pilgrimage road in late medieval literature Shayne Aaron Legassie 9. The romance of the road in Athelston and two late medieval Robin Hood ballads Chris Chism 10. London: the hub of an English river transport network, 1250 1550 Claire Martin 11. Conquest, roads and resistance in medieval Wales Dylan Foster Evans 12. Trackless, impenetrable and under developed? Roads, colonisation and environmental transformation in the Anglo Scottish border zone c.1100 to c.1300 Richard Oram Index
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