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In this reevaluation of the estate system, which has long been recognized as the central economic institution of medieval Japan, Thomas Keirstead argues that estates, or shoen, constituted more than a type of landownership. Through an examination of rent rolls, land registers, maps, and other data describing individual estates he reveals a cultural framework, one that produced and shaped meaning for residents and proprietors. Keirstead's discussion of peasant uprisings shows that the system, however, did not define a stable, closed structure, but was built upon contested terrain. Drawing on

Introduction : modern motherland and ancient otherworld -- Another country : Ælfric and the production of English identity -- Gerald de Barri and the geography of Ireland's conquest -- Locating England in the Polychronicon -- Beyond Rome : mapping gender and justice in the Man of Law's tale -- "From the very ends of the earth" : medieval geography and Wolsey's processions

Front Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Plates, Figures, and Maps -- Note on Conventions -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section One: Geography, Translation, and the Apocalypse -- 1. Routes and Realms -- 2. Models of Translation -- 3. Al-Wāthiq and the Translators -- Section Two: Marvelous Alterity -- 4. A Geography of Neighbors -- 5. A Wondrous Barrier -- Section Three: Beyond the Wall -- 6. To Live to Tell -- 7. Beyond the Walls of the Orient -- Conclusion -- Postscript: Royal Graffiti -- Appendix 1: The Dissemination of the Adventure -- Appendix 2: The Vienna Recension -- Appendix 3: The Bodleian Recension -- Appendix 4: The Idrīsī Recension -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of People -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects and Terms -- Index of Scriptural Citations.

Women and silk: remapping the silk routes from China to France -- Women silk workers from King Arthur's France to King Roger's Palermo (Yvain ou le chevalier au lion) -- Women working silk from Constantinople to Lotharingia (Le dit de l'empereur constant, le roman de la rose ou de Guillaume de Dole) -- Following two "ladies of Carthage" from Tyre to North Africa and Spain to France (Le roman d'enas, Aucassin et Nicolette) -- Women mapping a silk route from Saint-Denis to Jerusalem and Constantinople (Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne) -- Silk between virgins: following a relic from Constantinople to Chartres

Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Markus Stock and Nicola Vöhringer: Spatial Practices, Medieval/Modern; Oliver Simons: Spatial Turns around 1800; I.; II.; John K. Noyes: Space-Time Conversion and the Production of the Human; Bent Gebert: The Greater the Distance, the Closer You Get; I. Paradoxical Proximity: A Note on Travelling; II. Love Songs as Teleiopoetry: Two Examples from German Minnesang; III. `Teleiopoiesis' - the Making of Proximity Through Distance; IV. Teleiopoetry as Cultural Practice; V. Between Absence and Presence - Towards a Middle Ground

Mandeville's Travels was, for more than two centuries after its appearance in c.1356, of enormous influence and popularity in many fields of European culture. This paper discusses first its unprecedented generic eclecticism and its casting into the form of a first person narrative, and then proceeds to explore concepts of space and how a journey narrative may be articulated. Finally, it moves to consideration of the journey and what the traveller reports as having encountered on it as a moral exploration of a world seen as symbol as well as material.