Visibility & Control in the Vendee (open access)

Visibility & Control in the Vendee

This article uses fieldwork and the concept of relative aging to argue that the system of canals within the Vendee region of western France were begun in the tenth and eleventh centuries in conjunction with the Maillezais Abbey relocation and rebuilding.
Date: 2016
Creator: Deines, Dory & Wilson-Chavez, Owen
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lady of the Marshes: Place, Identity, and Coudrette’s Mélusine in Late-Medieval Poitou (open access)

The Lady of the Marshes: Place, Identity, and Coudrette’s Mélusine in Late-Medieval Poitou

This article discusses the use of the poetic romance, Mélusine or Le Roman de Parthenay, as a tale of identity, place, and the foundational role of women in the creation of dynastic, land-based legacies, supported through visual imagery analysis and theoretical models from cultural geography.
Date: 2016
Creator: Thompson, Shana
System: The UNT Digital Library