Experiencing Space

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Roman, Byzantine, and Medieval Contexts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Saku Pihko, Ville Vuolanto

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This book analyses the interconnection of space and experience in Roman Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages, ca. 100 BCE – 1500 CE.The joint analysis of these two conceptual spearheads enables a novel analysis of how space affected social frameworks, and how experiences built communities and shaped individual lives over the longue durée. The volume manifests the richness and innovativeness of analysing individual and shared experiences together with space as cultural, political, and social construction, bridging micro and macro levels. Ten high-quality case studies explore experiencing domestic, urban, political, and sacred space. An in-depth introduction explains the main concepts, and an epilogue binds the themes and chapters together. The volume utilizes a wide array of source material and has comprehensive coverage chronologically, geographically, and disciplinarily including several branches of Classical, Byzantine, and Medieval studies.The volume serves graduate students and scholars of several disciplines and fields: Classics and Ancient History, Medieval History, Byzantine Studies, Archaeology and Art History. It will also be fruitful to scholars of the Modern period whose work touches upon the field of the history of experiences.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-26
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor250
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032589015

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Sari Katajala-Peltomaa is currently Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland. Her publications include Demonic Possession & Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe (2020) and Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion (2022; ed. with Raisa Toivo).Saku Pihko has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences at Tampere University (2024–2025) and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku.Ville Vuolanto is Senior Lecturer in History and Latin at Tampere University. His publications include Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity (2015), and co-edited volumes such as A Cultural History of Youth in Antiquity (2023) and Pursuing Hope in the Premodern World (2025).

Space and the History of Experience in a Long-Term Perspective: An Introduction 1. The Experience of Republican Ideas and Practices in the Roman Urban Space 2. Imperial Authors' Re-experience of Greco-Roman Geography 3. Blending Places: Byzantine Children's Experiences of Spaces beyond the Private-Public Dichotomy 4. A Corpse in the Room: Spatial Practices after Death in Late Medieval Sweden 5. Everyday Walks – Practices and Experiences of Space in Late Medieval Paris 6. Late Republican Administrative Space and Spatial Experience in Cicero's Letters 7. Magistrates in the domus: Modelling Pompeian Houses 8. Sacred Spaces, Working Places, and Urban Environment in Ancient Ostia 9. Crossing the Threshold of a Byzantine Church: The Experience of the Spatial Transition 10. Medieval Pilgrimage as Passageway: St Patrick's Purgatory. Epilogue: Experience and the History of Space