An examination of the ideas of space and place as manifested in medieval texts, art, and architecture.

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Many Christians today tend to view the story of medieval faith as a cautionary tale. Too often, they dismiss the Middle Ages as a period of corruption and decay

Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a “middle” period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the