Bear journeys in early modern England

Davies, Callan, Bloxam, Anna, O'Regan, Hannah, Charlton, Sophie, Lewis, Liam and Wright, Elizabeth 2025. Bear journeys in early modern England. Seventeenth Century 10.1080/0268117X.2025.2461368

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Abstract

This article offers unprecedented insight into the domestic movements of early modern commercial entertainment producers based on fresh archival and archaeological details about bears and bearwards, centring on a surviving two-month journey record. We plot roadways taken and the lengths and times via GIS mapping, offering a fresh spatial humanities methodology to explore commercial life on the road and its consequences. Together, these sources and our interdisciplinary methodologies (uniting archival research and cultural history with spatial humanities, GIS mapping, and zooarchaeology) illuminate what it meant more broadly to travel on foot in early modern England.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0268-117X
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	3 February 2025
Date of Acceptance:	21 January 2025
Last Modified:	24 Mar 2025 14:27
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175844

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