Mapping Medieval Chester: place and identity in an English borderland city c.1200-1500

这个项目将探讨如何通过与英国中世纪城市及其周边地区的景观在1200年和1500年之间的地方参与产生的地方认同感和归属感。该项目是威尔士斯旺西大学（UWS）英语系、贝尔法斯特女王大学（QUB）地理、考古学和古生态学系以及伦敦国王学院人文学科计算中心（CCH）团队之间的合作项目，并将利用跨学科的方法来连接和分析中世纪切斯特的地图和文本“映射”。该项目将产生一组在线资源，将切斯特城市景观c.1500的交互式数字地图与关键文本（或文本摘录）的新版本和翻译以及解释装置相互链接。该项目还将根据网站材料撰写三篇学术文章。这个为期一年的项目旨在提供一系列独立的成果，同时建立基础设施，以便将来在网上资源的基础上进行建设（例如，通过添加更多的文本或摘录，进一步的“时间片”映射，以形成一个全面的数字地图集，或3D可视化）。网站的文本内容将由UWS英语系的团队制作。编辑的文本将包括大量摘录亨利布拉德肖的生活圣Werburgh（c.1513，出版的理查德·平森在1521年和最后编辑于1887年），Dafydd ap Gwilym的诗I 'r Grog o Gaer（在切斯特十字架）以及其他威尔士诗歌中提到切斯特的段落，以及Ranulf希登对切斯特的赞美诗（与特里维萨的约翰版本）。这些文本都提供了城市环境的不同映射和象征性的占用，以及其复杂的混合或阈身份的证据。另一个关键文本包括（部分）是卢西恩的De Laude Cestrie（在切斯特的赞美，c.1195，编辑于1912年，但以前从未翻译成英语）。以及其在切斯特项目中的关键作用，这本书将是一个非常重要的资源，为学者工作更广泛的中世纪城市及其文学。网站文本将通过所描述的环境特征以及通过提及盎格鲁撒克逊/罗马遗产或与威尔士的关系等关键主题而相互联系。这些文本也将与数字地图中的相关特征相关联。QUB的团队将在地理信息系统中创建一个详细的切斯特及其周边地区的地形图。这涉及到数字化和分析制图证据从十九世纪的地形测量地图回到最早的地图切斯特（c.1580）。使用这种方法，地理信息系统将包含一系列的“地图层”/每一个都是有用的研究工具/虽然主要成果将是一个中世纪晚期切斯特的数字地图，其中包含制图和形态数据，并在网站上与编辑的文本相互链接。因此，这张地图将形成一个框架，通过它来解释切斯特的城市景观的文本映射。创建中世纪切斯特数字地图的过程也将为开发适用于其他中世纪城市的可转移方法提供基础。除了数字地图的制作，QUB团队还将对相关的考古和文献证据进行范围调查，以形成中世纪城市综合数字地图集的预测未来工作的基础，显示900至1500年间切斯特城市景观的发展。该网站将与卫生协调委员会的一个技术研究小组和技术主任合作开发。该项目将以为期一天的座谈会和网站发布以及在格罗夫纳博物馆举行的公共研讨会而告终。

This project will investigate how a sense of place-identity and belonging were produced through local engagements with the landscapes of an English medieval city and its environs between c.1200 and 1500. The project is a collaborative enterprise between teams in the English Department, University of Wales Swansea (UWS), the Department of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast (QUB) and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King's College, London, and will draw on interdisciplinary approaches to connect and analyse cartographic and textual 'mappings' of medieval Chester.The project will produce a set of online resources interlinking an interactive digital map of Chester's urban landscape c.1500, with new editions and translations of key texts (or textual extracts) and interpretative apparatus. The project will also generate three scholarly articles based on the website materials. The one-year project is designed to provide a set of discrete, self-contained outcomes, whilst establishing the infrastructure to build on the online resources (for example, by adding further texts or extracts, further 'time-slice' mappings to form a comprehensive digital atlas, or 3D visualisations) in the future.The textual content for the website will be produced by the team in the Department of English, UWS. The edited texts will include substantial extracts from Henry Bradshaw's Life of St Werburgh (c.1513, published by Richard Pynson in 1521 and last edited in 1887), Dafydd ap Gwilym's poem I'r Grog o Gaer (To the Cross at Chester) as well as passages from other Welsh poems referring to Chester, and the praise-poem to Chester by Ranulf Higden (with the John of Trevisa version). These texts all offer different mappings and symbolic appropriations of the city's environment, and evidence of its complex hybrid or liminal identity. Another key text to be included (in part) is Lucian's De Laude Cestrie (In Praise of Chester, c.1195, edited in 1912 but never previously translated into English). As well as its crucial role within the Chester project, this text will be a very important resource for scholars working more widely on medieval cities and their literature. The website texts will be interlinked by the environment features being described, and by references to key themes such as Anglo Saxon / Roman heritage or relations with Wales. The texts will also be linked to relevant features in the digital map.The team at QUB will create in a GIS a detailed topographical plan of Chester and its immediate environs c.1500, using a method of retrogressive plan-analysis. This involves digitizing and analysing cartographic evidence from nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey maps back to the earliest maps of Chester (c.1580). Using this approach the GIS will contain a series of 'map layers' / each a useful research tool / though the primary outcome will be a digital map of late medieval Chester containing cartographic and morphological data and interlinked on the website with the edited texts. This map will thus form a framework through which to interpret the textual mappings of Chester's urban landscape. The process of creating the digital mappings of medieval Chester will also provide the basis for developing a transferable methodology to apply to other medieval cities. Alongside the production of the digital mapping, the QUB team will also undertake a scoping survey of relevant archaeological and documentary evidence to form the basis of projected future work on a comprehensive digital atlas of the medieval city showing the development of the urban landscape of Chester between 900 and 1500. The website will be developed in collaboration with a technical research team and Technical Director at CCH. The project will culminate with a one-day colloquium and website launch, plus a public workshop at the Grosvenor Museum.