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

该项目将调查在1200年至1500年间，英国中世纪城市及其周边地区的当地景观是如何产生地方认同感和归属感的。该项目是英语系、威尔士斯旺西大学（UWS）、地理、考古和古生态系、贝尔法斯特女王大学（QUB）和伦敦国王学院人文计算中心（CCH）团队之间的合作项目，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”。该项目将制作一套在线资源，将1500年前切斯特城市景观的交互式数字地图、关键文本（或文本摘录）的新版本和翻译以及解释器连接起来。该项目还将根据网站资料生成三篇学术文章。这个为期一年的项目旨在提供一组离散的、独立的结果，同时建立基础设施，以建立在未来的在线资源上（例如，通过添加进一步的文本或摘录，进一步的“时间片”映射，形成一个全面的数字地图集，或3D可视化）。网站的文字内容将由西澳大学英语系的团队制作。编辑后的文本将包括亨利·布拉德肖的《圣韦伯格的生活》（约1513年，理查德·宾森于1521年出版，最后一次编辑于1887年）的大量节选，达菲德·阿普·格温姆的诗《献给切斯特的十字架》，以及其他威尔士诗歌中提到切斯特的段落，以及拉努夫·希登的赞美切斯特的诗（特雷维萨的约翰版本）。这些文本都提供了不同的映射和对城市环境的象征性挪用，并证明了其复杂的混合或有限的身份。另一个被纳入（部分）的关键文本是卢西恩的《赞美切斯特》（De Laude Cestrie，约1195年，1912年编辑，但此前从未被翻译成英文）。除了它在切斯特项目中的关键作用外，这本书将成为更广泛地研究中世纪城市及其文学的学者的重要资源。网站文本将通过所描述的环境特征，以及参考诸如盎格鲁-撒克逊/罗马遗产或与威尔士的关系等关键主题相互关联。这些文本还将与数字地图的相关特征联系起来。昆士兰大学的研究小组将使用一种回溯计划分析的方法，在地理信息系统中创建切斯特及其周边地区1500年前后的详细地形平面图。这包括数字化和分析从19世纪的地形测量地图到切斯特最早的地图（约1580年）的制图证据。使用这种方法，地理信息系统将包含一系列“地图层”/每一层都是有用的研究工具/尽管主要结果将是中世纪晚期切斯特的数字地图，其中包含制图和形态学数据，并在网站上与编辑过的文本相互链接。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。除了制作数字地图外，QUB团队还将对相关的考古和文献证据进行范围调查，为绘制中世纪城市的综合数字地图集奠定基础，展示900年至1500年间切斯特城市景观的发展。该网站将与CCH的技术研究团队和技术总监合作开发。该项目将以为期一天的研讨会和网站发布为高潮，再加上格罗夫纳博物馆的公共研讨会。

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.