Place and Space in the Medieval World

Table of Contents

1 The Secret Language of Movement: Interior Encounters with Space and Transition during Medieval Pilgrimage

Martin Locker

2 Distance and Embrace: Spatial Conditions of Access to the Volto Santo of Lucca

Ika Matyjaszkiewicz

3 Cave of Hermits, Cave of Cult: Saints Andrew-Zoerard and Benedict and the Sacralization of the Medieval Hungarian Landscape

Karen Stark

4 Processes of Religious Change in Late Iron Age Gotland: Rereading, Spatialization and Enculturation

Luke John Murphy5 Planting the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England

Jane Hawkes

6 "How Deserted Lies the City, Once So Full of People": the Reclamation of Intramural Space in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Michael D. J. Bintley

7 From the Space of the World to the Space of the Local: The Two Maps of Thomas Elmham

Beth Kaneko

8 The Broighter Hoard: Mythology, Misrepresentation and Mystery

Aideen M. Ireland

9 The Ambiguity in Medieval Depictions of Abraham's Bosom in the Areas and Spaces of the Christian Afterlife

Maria R. Grasso

10 Common Space or Cleft places? The Example of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, an Architectural and Figured Space

Elise Haddad

11 "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

Rebecca Pope

12 Fictive Architecture and Pictorial Place: Altichiero da Zevio's Oratory of St George in Padua (c.1379-1384)

Livia Lupi

13 Defining Difference or Connecting Spaces? Similarity and Meaning in the Arian Baptistery, Ravenna

Sam Barber

14 Heaven and Hall: Space and Place in Anglo-Saxon England

Heidi Stoner

15 The Vanishing Spaces of Islamic Courts (Ninth-Tenth Centuries)

Aimone Grossato

16 The Forming of an Apocalyptic Metageography: Muslim and Byzantine Apocalyptic Traditions and the Developing of a Shared Geographical Worldview

Francesco Furlan

17 World Maps and Waterways: Place and Space in the Beatus Mappaemundi

Emily Goetsch

18 The Bible as Map, On seeing God, Finding the way: Pilgrimage and Exegesis in Adomnan and Bede

Jennifer O'Reilly