Literary Culture in the Medieval Welsh Marches

Networks, Places, Politics

Matthew Sion (Research Associate Lampitt

Literary Culture in the Medieval Welsh Marches

Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture: Literary Culture in the Medieval Welsh Marches

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This volume explores the literary and political culture of the medieval Welsh Marches, with particular focus on Hereford, Ludlow, and Ynysforgan. It examines texts in French, Welsh, English, and Latin to situate the March within wider literary networks.

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The Welsh Marches, a name which 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; 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.

ISBN: 9780192846662
Pagina's: 272
Verschijnt: 19-05-2025
Serie: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
Rubriek: Literaire non-fictie

Druk: 1
Uitvoering: Hardback
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: OUP Oxford

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