Discover Medieval Chester: place, heritage and identity

切斯特市有着丰富的中世纪遗产。这方面的遗产今天出现在这座城市幸存的城镇景观、博物馆藏品和非凡的中世纪多语言文学中，这些文学反映了这个充满活力的边境城市中不同文化和民族社区的经历。然而，与这座城市的罗马历史相比，切斯特的中世纪历史目前是一项未得到充分利用的文化和经济资产，在当地博物馆、游客资源、旅游营销和城市环境本身中相对较少被看到。探索中世纪切斯特旨在促进中世纪切斯特作为一个多元文化、多语言城市的充满活力的文化遗产，汇集材料、文本和视觉文化，并在中世纪过去和今天的城市环境之间建立联系。特别是“发现中世纪切斯特”将分享由AHRC资助的“绘制中世纪切斯特”项目(www.medivalchester.ac.uk)最近进行的创新研究。该项目汇集了一本新的城市数字地图集，该地图集与新近编辑的英语、拉丁语和威尔士语的中世纪城市文本“地图”相互链接，展示了不同的文化和民族社区如何以不同的方式互动和配置他们周围的城市空间。结合其他学者的相关研究，这项新工作使我们能够更好地了解中世纪城市的地点和身份，并恢复中世纪切斯特个人和社区的经验。“发现中世纪切斯特”是建立在知识转移研究员、更广泛的学术团队和切斯特的格罗夫纳博物馆之间的合作伙伴关系-这种富有成效的关系是在“绘制中世纪切斯特”项目期间试行的，当时约1200人参加了由博物馆协调的活动，以庆祝项目研究的启动。我们与格罗夫纳博物馆以及柴郡和北威尔士的其他文化和艺术利益相关方一起，确定了我们的研究如何能够为更广泛的社区做出重大和持久的贡献，实现可量化的社会、文化和经济效益。我们还找到了与该地区其他正在进行的项目交叉的机会，以确保匹配的资金、当地政府的支持，以及为遗产政策和决策做出贡献的机会。我们的目标是重振人们对切斯特中世纪遗产的兴趣，促进教育和旅游潜力，并使观众能够探索地点、身份和社区问题。关于切斯特中世纪多元文化遗产的学术研究将通过六个主要成果进行传播：1.一个新的互动网站，以中世纪切斯特的互动地图为中心，覆盖在现代城市上。一套视听资源(包括简短的指南、中世纪文本摘录和带有描述的中世纪文物样本)将附在每个关键地点或特征上，允许用户探索这座中世纪城市及其内部不同的文化视角，并下载MP3格式的定制旅游2。多种语言的传统纸质旅游宣传册，包括威尔士语3。切斯特格罗夫纳博物馆的一个大型展览，它将转移到雷克瑟姆博物馆，后来成为切斯特4的一个较小的永久展览。一件公共艺术作品，受委托以突出的、引人入胜的方式表现和‘标示’切斯特的中世纪遗产。切斯特和弗雷克斯汉姆的活动和教育活动。将在斯旺西大学举办一期关于高等院校与遗产部门之间的知识转让和伙伴关系的讲习班。

The city of Chester has a rich medieval heritage. The legacies of this are present today in the city's surviving townscape, in its museum collections, and in the remarkable body of medieval multi-lingual literature which reflects the experiences of diverse cultural and ethnic communities within this dynamic borderland city. Yet in comparison with the city's Roman past, Chester's medieval past is currently an under-used cultural and economic asset, and is given relatively little visibility in local museums, in resources for visitors, in tourism marketing, and in the urban environment itself. 'Discover Medieval Chester' aims to promote the vibrant cultural heritage of medieval Chester as a multi-cultural, multi-lingual city, drawing together material, textual and visual culture and forging connections between the medieval past and the modern urban environment today. In particular, 'Discover Medieval Chester' will share the innovative recent research produced by the AHRC-funded 'Mapping Medieval Chester' project (www.medievalchester.ac.uk). This project brought together a new digital atlas of the city c.1500, interlinked with newly-edited editions of medieval textual 'mappings' of the city in English, Latin and Welsh, showing how different cultural and ethnic communities interacted and configured the urban space around them in different ways. Together with relevant research produced by other scholars, this new work enables us to better understand place and identity in the medieval city, and to recover the experiences of individuals and communities in medieval Chester.'Discover Medieval Chester' is founded on a partnership between the Knowledge Transfer Fellow, the wider academic team and the Grosvenor Museum, Chester - a productive relationship which was piloted during the 'Mapping Medieval Chester' project, when c.1200 people attended events coordinated by the Museum to celebrate the launch of the project research. Together with the Grosvenor Museum and other cultural and arts stakeholders in Cheshire and North Wales, we have defined ways in which our research can make a significant and lasting contribution to the wider community, achieving quantifiable social, cultural and economic benefits. We have also identified opportunities to intersect with other ongoing projects in the region in order to secure matched funding, local government support, and the chance to contribute to heritage policy and decision-making.The 'Discover Medieval Chester' partnership will produce new resources and experiences for diverse user constituencies including local communities, tourists and remote 'virtual visitors'. Our aim is to re-vitalise interest in Chester's medieval heritage, promote education and tourism potentials, and enable audiences to explore issues of place, identity and community.The academic research on Chester's multi-cultural medieval heritage will be disseminated via six key outputs:1. A new interactive website centred on an interactive map of medieval Chester, overlaid onto the modern city. A set of audio-visual resources (including short guides, excerpts of medieval texts, and sample medieval artefacts with descriptions) will be attached to each key location or feature, allowing users to explore the medieval city and the different cultural perspectives within it, and to download customisable, 'bespoke' tours in MP3 format2. Traditional paper tour brochures in a range of languages, including Welsh3. A major exhibition at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, which will transfer to Wrexham Museum and later become a smaller, permanent exhibition in Chester4. A piece of public art commissioned to represent and 'signpost' the medieval heritage of Chester in a prominent, engaging way5. Events and educational activities in Chester and Wrexham6. A workshop on knowledge transfer and partnerships between HEIs and the heritage sector, to be held at Swansea University.