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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Clarke, Catherine A. M

Titel

Swansea: Seeing the Invisible City—Spatial Encounters Past and Present

Ist Teil von

• Medieval Cityscapes Today, 2019, p.57

Ort / Verlag

The Netherlands: Arc Humanities Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter asks questions about how we might begin to recover and interpret lost or absent medieval cityscapes, and models possible approaches through the digital and material strategies which formed elements of the “City Witness” research project in Swansea. In his short radio play Return Journey , commissioned by the BBC and broadcast in 1947, poet Dylan Thomas describes a visit to his childhood home of Swansea, just a few years after the devastation of wartime air raids on the town. Thomas evokes the bombed landscape of Swansea on a cold February day: its “vanished buildings,” the “blitzed flat graves