Experiencing Space

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