Title Roadworks : medieval Britain, medieval roads edited by Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans

Published Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 367 pages) : illustrations Series Manchester medieval literature and culture Manchester medieval literature and culture. Contents Cover; Half-title; Series page; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction: roads and writing; Roads and writing; Naming; The road as right of way; On Roman roads and their construction; The chapters; Notes; 2 Sources for the English medieval road system; Introduction; Documentary evidence; Place names; Itineraries; Map evidence; Archaeological evidence; A theoretical approach; Towards a national medieval transport network; Notes 3 Once a highway, always a highway: roads and English law, c. 1150-1300Notes; 4 When things break: mending roads, being social; A: Broken tracks afford no passage; B: The way affords passage; Therefore C: The way is not broken; Notes; 5 The word on the street: Chaucer and the regulation of nuisance in post-plague London; Introduction; Troilus and Criseyde; The regulation of nuisance in London; Civic reform; The people's voice?; Notes; 6 Getting there: wayfinding in the Middle Ages; Who is travelling?; Route planning; Which way? Asking directions; Guides: medieval fixers Pilgrims on the holodeck: maps and itinerary mapsOn the road: signs and landmarks; Learn fast phrases in French to get around!; Signage; Conclusion: medieval wayfinding as spatial practice; Notes; 7 The function of material and spiritual roads in the English eremitic tradition; The development of the eremitic vocation; Hermits, labour and work; Metaphorical roads, labour and work in late eremitic literature; Literal roads, labour and work in connection with later hermits; Space syntax, medieval roads and medieval hermits; Conclusion; Notes 8 The royal itinerary and roads in England under Edward INotes; 9 The pilgrimage road in late medieval English literature; Politics, polemic and the pilgrimage road; The pilgrimage road as heterotopia; The pilgrimage road in Middle English romance; Conclusions; Notes; 10 The romance of the road in Athelston and two late medieval Robin Hood ballads; Geoffrey of Monmouth: a double history of roads; Brothers of the road: the politics of friendship in Athelston; A rough guide to Watling Street; Wayside distractions: the politics of roads in two late medieval Robin Hood ballads; Seizing the road Notes11 London: the hub of an English river transport network, 1250-1550; Jurisdiction and regulation; Goods transportation and the lightermen; Passenger transport and the watermen; Conclusion; Notes; 12 Conquest, roads and resistance in medieval Wales; Roadways, princes and power; Axes, maps and poetry; Recolonizing and decolonizing roads and woodlands; Conclusions; Notes; 13 Trackless, impenetrable and underdeveloped? Roads, colonization and environmental transformation ... ; Notes; Bibliography; Manuscripts and Unpublished Primary Sources; Printed Primary Sources; Secondary Works Summary 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 Analysis England Roman roads Scotland Wales itineraries medieval literature medieval roads navigable rivers networks public works Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Subject Roads -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500 Roads -- Great Britain -- Design and construction -- History -- To 1500 Civilization, Medieval. Medieval History. Geography. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Transportation. TRANSPORTATION -- Public Transportation. Civilization, Medieval Roads Roads -- Design and construction Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Allen, Valerie (Valerie Jane Grace), editor. Evans, Ruth, 1954- editor. ISBN 9781784996703 178499670X 9781526104267 1526104261

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