Power, Identity and Miracles on a Medieval Frontier

Author:   Catherine Clarke (University of Southampton, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367030063


Pages:   120
Publication Date:   08 January 2019
Format:   Paperback
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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. As the principal town of the Marcher lordship of Gower and seat of the Marcher lord's rule, Swansea was a site of contested authority, colonial control and complex interactions – and collisions – between different cultures, languages and traditions. Swansea also features in the miracle collection prepared for the canonisation of Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford (d. 1282), as the setting for the intriguing case of the hanging and strange revival of the Welsh rebel, William Cragh. Taking medieval Swansea and Wales as its starting point, this volume brings into focus questions of place, power, identity and belief, bringing together inter-disciplinary perspectives which span History, Literary Studies and Geography / Archaeology, and engaging with current debates in the fields of medieval frontier studies, urban history, manuscript studies and hagiography. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History.

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Author:   Catherine Clarke (University of Southampton, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.226kg
ISBN:  

9780367030063


ISBN 10:   0367030063
Pages:   120
Publication Date:   08 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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


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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.

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