Place and Space in the Medieval World

312 Pages·2018·44.052 MB·English

by  Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes, Heidi Stoner

Place and Space in the Medieval World
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 introduc-
tion 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.
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.
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Edited by Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes and
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Plates xi
Abbreviations xiii
Contributors xiv
Introduction: Place and Space xv
1 The Secret Language of Movement: Interior Encounters with Space
and Transition during Medieval Pilgrimage 1
MARTIN LOCKER
2 Distance and Embrace: Spatial Conditions of Access to the Volto
Santo of Lucca 12
IKA MATYJASZKIEWICZ
3 Cave of Hermits, Cave of Cult: Saints Andrew-Zoerard and Benedict
and the Sacralization of the Medieval Hungarian Landscape 22
KAREN STARK
4 Processes of Religious Change in Late Iron Age Gotland: Rereading,
Spatialization and Enculturation 32
LUKE JOHN MURPHY
5 Planting the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England 47
JANE HAWKES
6 “How Deserted Lies the City, Once So Full of People”: The
Reclamation of Intramural Space in Anglo-Saxon Literature 63
MICHAEL D. J. BINTLEY
7 From the Space of the World to the Space of the Local: The Two
Maps of Thomas Elmham 74
BETH KANEKO
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8 The Broighter Hoard: Mythology, Misrepresentation and Mystery 87
AIDEEN M. IRELAND
9 The Ambiguity in Medieval Depictions of Abraham’s Bosom in the
Areas and Spaces of the Christian Afterlife 103
MARIA R. GRASSO
10 Common Space or Cleft Places?: The Example of Beaulieu-
sur-Dordogne, an Architectural and Figured Space 114
ÉLISE 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 126
REBECCA POPE
12 Fictive Architecture and Pictorial Place: Altichiero da Zevio’s Oratory
of St George in Padua (c. 1379–1384) 137
LIVIA LUPI
13 Defining Difference or Connecting Spaces?: Similarity and Meaning
in the Arian Baptistery, Ravenna 149
SAM BARBER
14 Heaven and Hall: Space and Place in Anglo-Saxon England 159
HEIDI STONER
15 The Vanishing Spaces of Islamic Courts (Ninth to Tenth Centuries) 178
AIMONE GROSSATO
16 The Forming of an Apocalyptic Meta-geography: Muslim and
Byzantine Apocalyptic Traditions and the Developing of a Shared
Geographical Worldview 187
FRANCESCO FURLAN
17 World Maps and Waterways: Place and Space in the Beatus Mappaemundi 198
EMILY GOETSCH
18 The Bible as Map, On Seeing God and Finding the Way: Pilgrimage
and Exegesis in Adomnán and Bede 210
JENNIFER O’REILLY
Bibliography 227
Index 259
Figures
3.1 The Kingdom of Hungary in eastern Central Europe, c. eleventh century. 23
3.2 Topographic map showing the locations of Malá Skalka and Vel’ká
Skalka in the modern landscape of the Trenčín Region. 27
4.1 Visby Sankta Maria domkyrka, looking north-east. 34
4.2 The excavation at Lilla Ullevi, showing a stone-packed pavement
(top right) above a small line of cliffs (centre). 35
4.3 Distribution of secure vé-toponyms on Gotland, on the basis of
Olsson, Ortnamn på Gotland. 38
4.4 Ög N288, runestone, Oklunda, Östergötland. 39
5.1 Ruthwell cross, Dumfriesshire, mid-eighth century. 48
5.2 Collection of Anglo-Saxon sculptural fragments, south porch, All
Saints’ Church, Bakewell, Derbyshire. 50
5.3 Near-complete Anglo-Saxon stone sculptures: (a) Bewcastle cross,
Cumbria, east face, early eighth century, (b) North cross, Sandbach
marketplace, Cheshire, west face, early ninth century, (c) Masham
column, North Yorkshire, early ninth century. 52
5.4 Auckland St Andrews cross, South Auckland, Co. Durham, eighth
century: (a) general view with cross base, (b) detail of plant-scroll
with archer. 55
5.5 Crosses with plant-scrolls: (a) Nunnykirk cross, Northumberland,
eighth century, (b) ‘Acca’s Cross’, Hexham, Northumberland,
eighth century. 58
9.1 Abraham holding the cloth of souls, cloister capital, Monreale
Cathedral, north gallery, east side, c. 1176–1189. 106
9.2 The Last Judgement, Bourges Cathedral, c. 1270. 109
10.1 Lower register of the south tympanum, Saint-Pierre, Beaulieu-sur-
Dordogne, twelfth century. 115
10.2 Creature with ten horns, detail of the lower register of the south
tympanum, Saint-Pierre, Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, twelfth century. 116
10.3 Details of the piers of the south portal: (a) western pier, (b) eastern
pier, Saint-Pierre, Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, twelfth century. 119
10.4 Figural capital, south side of the nave, Saint-Pierre, Beaulieu-sur-
Dordogne, twelfth century. 121
10.5 Three lintels, reused from earlier building programme, Saint-Pierre,
Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne: (a) over door leading to cloister, (b) over
door leading to the gallery from the north transept, (c) over door
leading to the gallery from the south transept. 122