ABSTRACT

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, presenting a scholarly introduction written by the editors alongside thematic case studies that address a wide range of visual and textual material. The chapters consider the extant visual and textual sources from the medieval period alongside contemporary scholarly discussions to examine place and space in their wider critical context, and are written by specialists in a range of disciplines including art history, archaeology, history, and literature.

chapter 1|11 pages

The Secret Language of Movement

Interior Encounters with Space and Transition during Medieval Pilgrimage

chapter 2|10 pages

Distance and Embrace

Spatial Conditions of Access to the Volto Santo of Lucca 1

chapter 3|10 pages

Cave of Hermits, Cave of Cult

Saints Andrew-Zoerard and Benedict and the Sacralization of the Medieval Hungarian Landscape 1

chapter 4|15 pages

Processes of Religious Change in Late Iron Age Gotland

Rereading, Spatialization and Enculturation

chapter 6|11 pages

“How Deserted Lies the City, Once So Full of People” 1

The Reclamation of Intramural Space in Anglo-Saxon Literature

chapter 7|13 pages

From the Space of the World to the Space of the Local

The Two Maps of Thomas Elmham

chapter 8|16 pages

The Broighter Hoard

Mythology, Misrepresentation and Mystery 1

chapter 10|12 pages

Common Space or Cleft Places?

The Example of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, an Architectural and Figured Space

chapter 11|11 pages

“And on the woghe wrytyn this was”

Locating Three Dead Kings in the Parish Church Wall-Paintings of The Three Living and The Three Dead

chapter 12|12 pages

Fictive Architecture and Pictorial Place

Altichiero da Zevio’s Oratory of St George in Padua (c. 1379–1384)

chapter 13|10 pages

Defining Difference or Connecting Spaces?

Similarity and Meaning in the Arian Baptistery, Ravenna 1

chapter 14|19 pages

Heaven and Hall

Space and Place in Anglo-Saxon England

chapter 16|11 pages

The Forming of an Apocalyptic Meta-geography

Muslim and Byzantine Apocalyptic Traditions and the Developing of a Shared Geographical Worldview

chapter 17|12 pages

World Maps and Waterways

Place and Space in the Beatus Mappaemundi

chapter 18|17 pages

The Bible as Map, On Seeing God and Finding the Way

Pilgrimage and Exegesis in Adomnán and Bede 1