Power, Identity and Miracles on a Medieval Frontier
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 lords 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.
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.
Power, Identity and Miracles on a Medieval Frontier
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 lords 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.
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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Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Medieval History, volume 41, issue 3 (September 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Witnessing history: perspectives on medieval Swansea and its cultural contexts
Catherine A.M. Clarke
Journal of Medieval History, volume 41, issue 3 (September 2015) pp. 249255
Place, identity and performance: spatial practices and social proxies in medieval Swansea
Catherine A.M. Clarke
Journal of Medieval History, volume 41, issue 3 (September 2015) pp. 256272
A silent witness? Medieval urban landscapes and unfolding their mapping histories
Keith D. Lilley and Gareth Dean
Journal of Medieval History, volume 41, issue 3 (September 2015) pp. 273291
Mediating memory: recalling and recording the miracles of St Thomas Cantilupe
Harriett Webster
Journal of Medieval History, volume 41, issue 3 (September 2015) pp. 292308
The resuscitation of Roger of Conwy: a Cantilupe miracle and the society of Edwardian north Wales
Susan J. Ridyard and Jeremy A. Ashbee
Journal of Medieval History, volume 41, issue 3 (September 2015) pp. 309324
The geography of Welsh literary production in late medieval Glamorgan
Helen Fulton
Journal of Medieval History, volume 41, issue 3 (September 2015) pp. 325340
The Briouze family in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries: inheritance strategies, lordship and identity
Daniel Power
Journal of Medieval History, volume 41, issue 3 (September 2015) pp. 341361
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