Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0211515]Researchers: Dr Helen Fulton (Chief Investigator)
Brief description The medieval town imagined: representations of urban culture in medieval literature. As the size and number of towns in north-west Europe expanded from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, the cultural response to economic and social changes produced by urbanisation was articulated in literary texts. The project aims to examine ways in which towns and urban culture are represented in medieval English, Welsh and French literature, foregrounding the attitudes constructed by the texts towards towns, townspeople and the impact of the urban economy. The resulting monograph and database of references will provide new evidence for the competitive relationships between feudal nobilities and emerging urban elites.
Funding Amount $107,522
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0211515
- ARC : DP0211515