Place and Space in the Medieval World

Meg Boulton is a Research Affiliate with the Department of History of Art at the University of York, UK.Jane Hawkes is Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of York, UK.Heidi Stoner is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University, UK.

• Table of Contents1 The Secret Language of Movement: Interior Encounters with Space and Transition during Medieval PilgrimageMartin Locker 2 Distance and Embrace: Spatial Conditions of Access to the Volto Santo of LuccaIka Matyjaszkiewicz3 Cave of Hermits, Cave of Cult: Saints Andrew-Zoerard and Benedict and the Sacralization of the Medieval Hungarian Landscape Karen Stark4 Processes of Religious Change in Late Iron Age Gotland: Rereading, Spatialization and EnculturationLuke John Murphy5 Planting the Cross in Anglo-Saxon EnglandJane Hawkes6 "How Deserted Lies the City, Once So Full of People": the Reclamation of Intramural Space in Anglo-Saxon LiteratureMichael D. J. Bintley7 From the Space of the World to the Space of the Local: The Two Maps of Thomas ElmhamBeth Kaneko8 The Broighter Hoard: Mythology, Misrepresentation and Mystery Aideen M. Ireland9 The Ambiguity in Medieval Depictions of Abraham’s Bosom in the Areas and Spaces of the Christian Afterlife Maria R. Grasso10 Common Space or Cleft places? The Example of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, an Architectural and Figured SpaceÉlise Haddad11 "And on the woghe wrytyn this was": Locating Three Dead Kings in the Parish Church Wall-Paintings of The Three Living and The Three DeadRebecca Pope12 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, RavennaSam Barber14 Heaven and Hall: Space and Place in Anglo-Saxon EnglandHeidi Stoner 15 The Vanishing Spaces of Islamic Courts (Ninth–Tenth Centuries) Aimone Grossato16 The Forming of an Apocalyptic Metageography: Muslim and Byzantine Apocalyptic Traditions and the Developing of a Shared Geographical Worldview Francesco Furlan17 World Maps and Waterways: Place and Space in the Beatus MappaemundiEmily Goetsch18 The Bible as Map, On seeing God, Finding the way: Pilgrimage and Exegesis in Adomnán and BedeJennifer O’Reilly

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