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Title Roadworks : medieval Britain, medieval roads / edited by Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans.
Publication Info Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2016.



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Contents 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 ...
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ISBN 9781784996703 electronic bk.
178499670X electronic bk.
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Series Manchester medieval literature and culture
Manchester medieval literature and culture.
Subject Roads -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.
Roads -- Great Britain -- Design and construction -- History -- To 1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
Alt author Allen, Valerie (Valerie Jane Grace)
Evans, Ruth, 1954-
Descript 1 online resource.
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Contents 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 ...
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781784996703 electronic bk.
178499670X electronic bk.
Series Manchester medieval literature and culture
Manchester medieval literature and culture.
Subject Roads -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.
Roads -- Great Britain -- Design and construction -- History -- To 1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
Alt author Allen, Valerie (Valerie Jane Grace)
Evans, Ruth, 1954-

Subject Roads -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.
Roads -- Great Britain -- Design and construction -- History -- To 1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
Descript 1 online resource.
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents 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 ...
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Allen, Valerie (Valerie Jane Grace)
Evans, Ruth, 1954-
ISBN 9781784996703 electronic bk.
178499670X electronic bk.

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