[Archport] MAPPING THE MEDIEVAL CITY: SPACE, PLACE AND IDENTITY

[António Correia <avantecomuna@iol.pt>]

CALL FOR PAPERS

"MAPPING THE MEDIEVAL CITY: SPACE, PLACE AND IDENTITY"

AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM


SWANSEA UNIVERSITY, 30-31 JULY 2009

This colloquium, held to mark the completion of the AHRC-funded research
project ‘Mapping Medieval Chester’ (www.medievalchester.ac.uk), will launch
the digital materials produced by the project and provide a forum for wider
discussion of place and identity in the medieval city, as well as concepts
of ‘mapping’ in the Middle Ages and today. The colloquium will feature papers
on medieval Chester, but we are also seeking inter-disciplinary contributions
relating to the medieval city more generally.

The ‘Mapping Medieval Chester’ project has brought together scholars working
in the disciplines of literary studies, geography, archaeology and history to
explore how material and imagined urban landscapes construct and convey a
sense of place-identity. The focus of the research project itself is  
the city of
Chester and the identities that its inhabitants formed between c.1200 and
1500. A key aspect of the project is to integrate geographical and literary
mappings of the medieval city using cartographic and textual sources and
using these to understand more how urban landscapes in the Middle Ages
were interpreted and navigated by local inhabitants. We hope the colloquium
will use our research on Chester as the basis for broader discussions  
centering
on the project’s themes, methods and theoretical preoccupations.

We therefore invite 20-minute paper proposals (abstracts of around 300
words) on any subject relating to the project’s broad themes of place and
identity in the medieval European city. These might include:

- Place and identity in medieval Chester
- Writers and texts of medieval Chester (e.g. Lucian, Higden, The Cycle Plays,
Bradshaw, medieval Welsh poetry)

- Place and identity in the medieval city
- Medieval border towns and/or border writing
- Writers and texts of the medieval city (e. g. Benedict’s Mirabilia  
urbis Romae,
William FitzStephen, Richard Devizes, vernacular drama and verse)
- Multilingualism and the medieval city

- Theories of space, place and mapping

Proposals should be sent to Mark Faulkner (m.j.faulkner [at] swan.ac.uk) by
23 February 2009.

http://www.hortulus.net/~hortulus/index.php/'Mapping_the_Medieval_City:_Space,_Place_and_Identity',_at_Swansea_University


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