{"id":18239,"date":"2025-09-18T18:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18239"},"modified":"2025-09-18T18:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:16:21","slug":"on-alderley-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/09\/18\/on-alderley-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"On Alderley Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new \u00a3145 academic collection <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/edit\/10.4324\/9781003408475\/magical-tourism-enchanting-geographies-jane-lovell-nitasha-sharma\">Magical Tourism and Enchanting Geographies: Storytelling, Heritage, Fantasy, and Folklore<\/a><\/em> (2025) has the chapter &#8220;Can you hear the knights breathing? Invisible heritage and the magic of Alderley Edge&#8221;. For which I can find an abstract at least&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; home to a legend of which variant versions are found across Europe from antiquity to the present: the legend of the sleeping king or hero and his army, who will awaken when need is greatest. [I explore] the relationship between the legend (as a distinctly medievalist imagining), its medieval precedents, and its new re-imaginings in contemporary literary and oral culture of the NW Midlands [of England], which present a new chapter in a long regional oral and literary culture of storytelling as placemaking.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Presumably the chapter relates partly to the <a href=\"https:\/\/invisibleworlds.ac.uk\/the-legend\/\">Invisible Worlds project (2020-23)<\/a>, which created a phone-app AR guide for visitors to Alderley Edge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/alderley_edge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/alderley_edge-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"412\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/alderley_edge-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/alderley_edge-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/alderley_edge-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/alderley_edge.jpg 1389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new \u00a3145 academic collection Magical Tourism and Enchanting Geographies: Storytelling, Heritage, Fantasy, and Folklore (2025) has the chapter &#8220;Can you hear the knights breathing? Invisible heritage and the magic of Alderley Edge&#8221;. For which I can find an abstract at least&#8230; &#8220;&#8230; home to a legend of which variant versions are found across Europe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18243,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18239\/revisions\/18243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}