Literary Culture in the Medieval Welsh Marches
The Welsh Marches, a name that today refers to the borderland regions between England and Wales, are often coupled with images of idealized rusticity, of ‘blue remembered hills’. Yet, in the Middle Ages, the Marches stretched from the borders into much of modern-day Mid and South Wales and were impo...
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| description | The Welsh Marches, a name that today refers to the borderland regions between England and Wales, are often coupled with images of idealized rusticity, of ‘blue remembered hills’. Yet, in the Middle Ages, the Marches stretched from the borders into much of modern-day Mid and South Wales and were important spaces of conflict, colonization, and contact; of complex, shifting, strategic politics and identities; and, crucially, of vibrant literary activity. An exploration of the Marches’ multilingual literary cultures, this book is structured around three geotemporal case studies: Hereford, c. 1170–c. 1210; Ludlow, c. 1310–c. 1350; and Ynysforgan, c. 1380–c. 1410. Analysing texts and manuscripts composed, copied, compiled, translated, or otherwise circulated in these locales, this study crosses linguistic and disciplinary boundaries to formulate readings of works in French, Welsh, English, and Latin. These readings are developed through an extended engagement with the philosophy of Bruno Latour, particularly his work on Actor-Network Theory and modes of existence. From these perspectives, this book not only situates the March within wider literary networks but also reads its texts as networking narratives that deconstruct binaries of centre and periphery, of local and global, of human and nonhuman, and even of reality and fiction themselves. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1719992026-02-13T06:04:55Z Literary Culture in the Medieval Welsh Marches Siôn Lampitt, Matthew Welsh Marches Medieval literature Hereford Ludlow Ynysforgan Multilingualism Bruno Latour Networks Actor-Network Theory Modes of existence thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers The Welsh Marches, a name that today refers to the borderland regions between England and Wales, are often coupled with images of idealized rusticity, of ‘blue remembered hills’. Yet, in the Middle Ages, the Marches stretched from the borders into much of modern-day Mid and South Wales and were important spaces of conflict, colonization, and contact; of complex, shifting, strategic politics and identities; and, crucially, of vibrant literary activity. An exploration of the Marches’ multilingual literary cultures, this book is structured around three geotemporal case studies: Hereford, c. 1170–c. 1210; Ludlow, c. 1310–c. 1350; and Ynysforgan, c. 1380–c. 1410. Analysing texts and manuscripts composed, copied, compiled, translated, or otherwise circulated in these locales, this study crosses linguistic and disciplinary boundaries to formulate readings of works in French, Welsh, English, and Latin. These readings are developed through an extended engagement with the philosophy of Bruno Latour, particularly his work on Actor-Network Theory and modes of existence. From these perspectives, this book not only situates the March within wider literary networks but also reads its texts as networking narratives that deconstruct binaries of centre and periphery, of local and global, of human and nonhuman, and even of reality and fiction themselves. 2026-02-13T06:04:51Z 2026-02-13T06:04:51Z 2026-02-12T12:55:00Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109939 9780192846662 9780192661975 9780191939150 9780192661968 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/171999 mul open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109939/1/9780192846662.pdf Oxford University Press Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture 10.1093/9780191939150.001.0001 10.1093/9780191939150.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 9780192846662 9780192661975 9780191939150 9780192661968 Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture 272 Oxford open access |
| spellingShingle | Welsh Marches Medieval literature Hereford Ludlow Ynysforgan Multilingualism Bruno Latour Networks Actor-Network Theory Modes of existence thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Siôn Lampitt, Matthew Literary Culture in the Medieval Welsh Marches |
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| topic | Welsh Marches Medieval literature Hereford Ludlow Ynysforgan Multilingualism Bruno Latour Networks Actor-Network Theory Modes of existence thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
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