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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|11 pages
The Secret Language of Movement
Interior Encounters with Space and Transition during Medieval Pilgrimage
chapter 3|10 pages
Cave of Hermits, Cave of Cult
Saints Andrew-Zoerard and Benedict and the Sacralization of the Medieval Hungarian Landscape
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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 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
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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 18|17 pages
The Bible as Map, On Seeing God and Finding the Way
Pilgrimage and Exegesis in Adomnán and Bede
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