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Walking in the Middle Ages

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The first book-length study of walking in the Middle Ages, this volume examines philosophy, hagiography, miracle narratives, drama, conduct books, literary texts (including Barbour, Langland, Chauc...
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  • 29 September 2026
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The first book-length treatment of medieval walking, the essays in this collection bring into view short-distance, solitary, and group walks from home to church and along highways, pilgrimage walks to local shrines and to the Holy Land, dramatic walking performed on pageants and choreographed in the streets, walking in and at the margins of the city, and liturgical and processional walking. Treating traditions of philosophy, hagiography and miracle narratives, early English drama, art, conduct books, and vernacular poetry and prose (including by Barbour, Langland, Chaucer, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Kempe), and drawing on a range of critical lenses (including disability studies, posthumanism, and dance studies), this volume opens to scrutiny periodised claims, contributes to understanding the longer history of the modern English ambulatory tradition, and illuminates what makes medieval walking distinctive.
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Price: $140.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Publication Date: 29 September 2026
ISBN: 9781807071271
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), HISTORY / Social History, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Social and cultural history
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Katie L. Walter is Associate Professor in Medieval English Literature at the University of Sussex

Introduction: Medieval walking – Katie Walter
1. Walking-thinking in conduct literature and Middle English poetry – Matthew Boyd Goldie
2. Holy impediments, pedestrian care: Walking Cuthbert’s Way, then and now – Shannon Gayk
3. Walking objects: Divergent (non-)bodies in late medieval pilgrimage – Sarah Breckenridge Wright
4. ‘He who walks, may sit’: On walking in medieval philosophy – José Filipe Silva
5. (S)pacing faith: Christian pedestrianism and Cycle performance – Eleanor Rycroft
6. Walking in Troy: Choreographic tactics in John Lydgate’s Troy Book – Clinton Morrison, Jr.
7. Faith on foot: How to walk in Piers Plowman – Ellen R. Ketels
Afterword: The weight of walking – Richard H. Godden
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