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245 00 Roadworks :|bmedieval Britain, medieval roads /|cedited by
Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans.
260 Manchester, UK :|bManchester University Press,|c2016.
300 1 online resource.
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338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
490 1 Manchester medieval literature and culture
505 0 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
505 8 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
505 8 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
505 8 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
505 8 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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650 0 Roads|zGreat Britain|xHistory|yTo 1500.
650 0 Roads|zGreat Britain|xDesign and construction|xHistory|yTo
1500.
650 0 Civilization, Medieval.
700 1 Allen, Valerie|q(Valerie Jane Grace)
700 1 Evans, Ruth,|d1954-
830 0 Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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