Roadworks: medieval Britain, medieval roads

More Details

Full Title:: Roadworks: medieval Britain, medieval roads / edited by Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans
Series Titles:: Manchester medieval literature and culture
Manchester medieval literature and culture.

Related/Included Titles:: Roads and writing /
Sources for the English medieval road system /
Once a highway, always a highway : roads and English law, c. 1150-1300 /
When things break : mending roads, being social /
The word on the street : Chaucer and the regulation of nuisance in post-plague London /
Getting there : wayfinding in the Middle Ages /
The function of material and spiritual roads in the English eremitic tradition /
The royal itinerary and roads in England under Edward I /
The pilgrimage road in late medieval English literature /
The romance of the road in Athelston and two late medieval Robin Hood ballads /
London: the hub of an English river transport ntework, c. 1250-1550 /
Conquest, roads and resistance in medieval Wales /
Trackless, impenetrable and underdeveloped? : roads, colonization and environmental transformation in the Anglo-Scottish border zone, c. 1100 to c. 1300 /
Variant Titles:: Medieval Britain, medieval roads

Additional Author/Creators:: Allen, Valerie (Valerie Jane Grace), editor
Evans, Ruth, 1954-, editor

Subjects:: Roads--Great Britain--History--To 1500
Travel, Medieval
Roads in literature
Great Britain--Civilization--1066-1485

Table of 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.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: xi, 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm