Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn Paperback - 2006
by David Wallace
First line
In 1749, William Hogarth painted "The Gate of Calais, or O the Roastbeef of Old England" (figure 1).
From the rear cover
This book recovers places in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. Beginning with Calais, peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558, and ending with Surinam, traded away for Manhattan in 1667, this well-illustrated book recreates the distinctive cultural life of a range of locations: from Flanders which led the world in technological innovations; to Somerset, which provided a fitting home for Dante; to the Canaries (the Fortunate Islands), which formed the limits of western dreaming.
The book's exploration of premodern places features fascinating vignettes, such as an English merchant learning love songs in Calais, coupled with insights into broader economic narratives of political, technological, religious, and economic change. In particular, it provides long geneaologies of blackness and whiteness, race and slavery, in the premodern world.
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- Title Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn
- Author David Wallace
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
- Date 2006-08-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9781405151528 / 1405151528
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.06 x 6.04 x 1 in (23.01 x 15.34 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: British
- Dewey Decimal Code 809
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