Mapping the March: Spring Seminar Series

Mapping the March is a major research project selected by the ERC and funded by UKRI. Each semester we invite speakers to present papers on topics related to borders and borderlands in medieval and early modern Europe. All welcome to attend the seminars in person or online, with in-person refreshments available after the papers.

This paper draws on research undertaken as part of the AHRC-funded Invisible Worlds project, exploring the medieval legacies at work in twentieth and twenty-first-century popular understandings of mythic and legendary space at Alderley Edge, a non-built heritage site in North-East Cheshire. It explores postmedieval literary and creative conflations of the site with ‘Gawain country’, the Cheshire/Staffordshire locations some forty miles to the west of Alderley Edge, understood from the mid-twentieth century onwards to have fired the imagination of the fourteenth-century author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Dr Victoria Flood