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Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn
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Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn Paperback - 2006

by Wallace, D

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Blackwell, 2006. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9781405151528
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  • Title Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn
  • Author Wallace, D
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 354
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Blackwell
  • Date 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9819000
  • 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)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809

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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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About the author

David Wallace is Judith Rodin Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He has traveled extensively, exploring the importance of place both for print and documentary radio.