Power, Identity and Miracles on a Medieval Frontier

ISBN-13: 9780367030063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 120 str.

Catherine A. M. Clarke

Opis

A thriving port, a frontier base for the lords of Gower and a multi-cultural urban community, the south Wales town of Swansea was an important centre in the Middle Ages, at a nexus of multiple identities, cultural practices and configurations of power. This inter-disciplinary collection takes medieval Swansea as its starting point, to investigate questions of place, power, identity and belief in the Middle Ages. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History.

Recenzje

The various essays in the book include material which is valuable and interesting.
-David Stephenson, Archaeologia Cambrensis

Spis treści

1. Witnessing history: perspectives on medieval Swansea and its cultural contexts  2. Place, identity and performance: spatial practices and social proxies in medieval Swansea  3. A silent witness? Medieval urban landscapes and unfolding their mapping histories  4. Mediating memory: recalling and recording the miracles of St Thomas Cantilupe  5. The resuscitation of Roger of Conwy: a Cantilupe miracle and the society of Edwardian north Wales  6. The geography of Welsh literary production in late medieval Glamorgan  7. The Briouze family in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries: inheritance strategies, lordship and identity

O autorze

Catherine A.M. Clarke is Professor of Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Southampton, UK. She directed the AHRC-funded project ‘City Witness: Place and Perspective in Medieval Swansea’, having previously led a similar project on the literature and culture of medieval Chester. She has published widely on place, power and identity in medieval Britain.