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9780719085062 English 0719085063 Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads is 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, arguing that the business of road maintenance, road travel and wayfinding constitutes social bonds. It challenges the long-held picture of a medieval Britain lacking in technological sophistication, passively inheriting Roman roads and never engineering any of its own. Previous studies of medieval infrastructure tend to be discipline-specific and technical. This accessible collection draws out the imaginative, symbolic, and cultural significance of the road. The key audience for this book is scholars of medieval Britain (early and late) in all disciplines. Its theoretical foundations will also ensure an audience among scholars of cultural studies, especially those in urban studies, transport studies, and economic history., Roadworks: medieval roads, medieval Britain is 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. Its examination of the building and maintenance of infrastructure challenges the long-held picture of a medieval England lacking in technological sophistication, passively inheriting Roman roads and never engineering any of its own, contenting itself instead with dirt tracks and poor-quality paving. At the theoretical level, Roadworks argues that the business of road maintenance, road travel, and wayfinding, far from simply reflecting social relations actually constitutes those very associations and bonds we call social. The contributors have been carefully chosen to provide a comprehensive and diverse range of topics and chronology. Roadworks balances theoretical consideration with historical and archaeological data to create a truly interdisciplinary study that is also strongly coherent. To date, recent studies of medieval infrastructure have been tended to be discipline-specific and often technical. This collection is accessible and brings the close reading skills of literary study to draw out the imaginative, symbolic, and cultural significance of the road. The key audience for this book is scholars of medieval England (early and late) in all disciplines, both lecturers and postgraduate students. It is not a student survey or textbook. Its theoretical foundations will also ensure an audience among scholars of cultural studies, especially those in urban studies, transport studies, and economic history., This collection of essays offers an 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, arguing that the business of road maintenance, road travel and wayfinding constitutes social bonds. Setting Britain's thoroughfares against the backdrop of the extant Roman road system, it argues for a technique of road construction and care that is distinctively medieval and challenges the long-held picture of a medieval Britain lacking in technological sophistication. This accessible collection draws out the imaginative, symbolic and cultural significance of the road. It synthesizes information on medieval road terminology, roads as rights of passage and the road as an idea as much as a physical entity. Individual essays look afresh at sources for the study of the medieval English road system, legal definitions of the highway, road-breaking and road-mending, wayfinding and the architecture of the street and its role in popular urban government. The book also explores subjects including hermits and the road as spiritual metaphor, royal itineraries, pilgrimage roads, roads in medieval English romances, English river transport, roads in medieval Wales and roads in the Anglo-Scottish border zone. This book will appeal to scholars of early and late medieval Britain in all disciplines. Its theoretical foundations will also ensure an audience among scholars of cultural studies, especially those in urban studies, transport studies and economic history.
9780719085062 English 0719085063 Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads is 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, arguing that the business of road maintenance, road travel and wayfinding constitutes social bonds. It challenges the long-held picture of a medieval Britain lacking in technological sophistication, passively inheriting Roman roads and never engineering any of its own. Previous studies of medieval infrastructure tend to be discipline-specific and technical. This accessible collection draws out the imaginative, symbolic, and cultural significance of the road. The key audience for this book is scholars of medieval Britain (early and late) in all disciplines. Its theoretical foundations will also ensure an audience among scholars of cultural studies, especially those in urban studies, transport studies, and economic history., Roadworks: medieval roads, medieval Britain is 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. Its examination of the building and maintenance of infrastructure challenges the long-held picture of a medieval England lacking in technological sophistication, passively inheriting Roman roads and never engineering any of its own, contenting itself instead with dirt tracks and poor-quality paving. At the theoretical level, Roadworks argues that the business of road maintenance, road travel, and wayfinding, far from simply reflecting social relations actually constitutes those very associations and bonds we call social. The contributors have been carefully chosen to provide a comprehensive and diverse range of topics and chronology. Roadworks balances theoretical consideration with historical and archaeological data to create a truly interdisciplinary study that is also strongly coherent. To date, recent studies of medieval infrastructure have been tended to be discipline-specific and often technical. This collection is accessible and brings the close reading skills of literary study to draw out the imaginative, symbolic, and cultural significance of the road. The key audience for this book is scholars of medieval England (early and late) in all disciplines, both lecturers and postgraduate students. It is not a student survey or textbook. Its theoretical foundations will also ensure an audience among scholars of cultural studies, especially those in urban studies, transport studies, and economic history., This collection of essays offers an 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, arguing that the business of road maintenance, road travel and wayfinding constitutes social bonds. Setting Britain's thoroughfares against the backdrop of the extant Roman road system, it argues for a technique of road construction and care that is distinctively medieval and challenges the long-held picture of a medieval Britain lacking in technological sophistication. This accessible collection draws out the imaginative, symbolic and cultural significance of the road. It synthesizes information on medieval road terminology, roads as rights of passage and the road as an idea as much as a physical entity. Individual essays look afresh at sources for the study of the medieval English road system, legal definitions of the highway, road-breaking and road-mending, wayfinding and the architecture of the street and its role in popular urban government. The book also explores subjects including hermits and the road as spiritual metaphor, royal itineraries, pilgrimage roads, roads in medieval English romances, English river transport, roads in medieval Wales and roads in the Anglo-Scottish border zone. This book will appeal to scholars of early and late medieval Britain in all disciplines. Its theoretical foundations will also ensure an audience among scholars of cultural studies, especially those in urban studies, transport studies and economic history.