Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i 1
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. List of tables viii
5. List of contributors ix
6. Acknowledgements xii
7. List of abbreviations xiii
8. 1 Introduction 1
9. 2 Sources for the English medieval road system 33
10. 3 Once a highway, always a highway 50
11. 4 When things break 74
12. 5 The word on the street 97
13. 6 Getting there 127
14. 7 The function of material and spiritual roads in the English eremitic tradition 157
15. 8 The royal itinerary and roads in England under Edward I 177
16. 9 The pilgrimage road in late medieval English literature 198
17. 10 The romance of the road in Athelston and two late medieval Robin Hood ballads 220
18. 11 London 249
19. 12 Conquest, roads and resistance in medieval Wales 277
20. 13 Trackless, impenetrable and underdeveloped? 303
21. Bibliography 326
22. Index 360