An examination of the ideas of space and place as manifested in medieval texts art and architecture. This interdisciplinary collection of sixteen essays explores the significance of space and place in Late Antique and medieval culture as well as modern reimaginings of medieval topographies. Its case studies draw on a wide variety of critical approaches and cover architecture the visual arts (painting and manuscript illumination) epic romance historiography hagiography cartography travel writing as well as modern English poetry. Challenging simplistic binaries of East and West self and other Muslim and Christian the volume addresses the often unexpected roles played by space and place in the construction of individual and collective identities in religious and secular domains. The essays move through world spaces (mappaemundi the exotic and the mundane East the Mediterranean); empires nations and frontier zones; cities (Avignon Jerusalem and Reval); and courts castles and the architectureof subjectivity closing with modern visions of the medieval world. They explore human movement in space and the construction of time and place in memory. Taking up pressing contemporary issues such as nationalism multilingualism multiculturalism and confessional relations they find that medieval material provides narratives that we can use today in our negotiations with the past. Julian Weiss is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Studies Sarah Salih Senior Lecturer in English at King's College London. Contributors: Richard Talbert Paul Freedman Sharon Kinoshita Luke Sunderland Julian Weiss Sarah Salih Konstantin Klein Katie Clark Elizabeth Monti Elina Gertsman Elina Räsänen Geoff Rector Nicolay Ostrau Andrew Cowell Joshua Davies Chris Jones Matthew Francis. Language: English