Medievalists have much to gain from a thoroughgoing
contemplation of place. If landscapes are windows onto human
activity, they connect us with medieval people, enabling us to ask
questions about their senses of space and place. In A Place to
Believe In Clare Lees and Gillian Overing bring together scholars
of medieval literature, archaeology, history, religion, art
history, and environmental studies to explore the idea of place in
medieval religious culture.
The essays in A Place to Believe In reveal places real and
imagined, ancient and modern: Anglo-Saxon Northumbria (home of
Whitby and Bede's monastery of Jarrow), Cistercian monasteries of
late medieval Britain, pilgrimages of mind and soul in Margery
Kempe, the ruins of Coventry Cathedral in 1940, and representations
of the sacred landscape in today's Pacific Northwest.
A strength of the collection is its awareness of the fact that
medieval and modern viewpoints converge in an experience of place
and frame a newly created space where the literary, the historical,
and the cultural are in ongoing negotiation with the geographical,
the personal, and the material. Featuring a distinguished array of
scholars, A Place to Believe In will be of great interest to
scholars across medieval fields interested in the interplay between
medieval and modern ideas of place.
Contributors are Kenneth Addison, Sarah Beckwith, Stephanie
Hollis, Stacy S. Klein, Fred Orton, Ann Marie Rasmussen, Diane
Watt, Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley, Ulrike Wiethaus, and Ian Wood.
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