Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages illuminates how the
floor surface shaped the ways in which people in medieval western
Europe and beyond experienced sacred spaces. The ground beneath our
feet plays a crucial, yet often overlooked, role in our
relationship with the environments we inhabit and the spaces with
which we interact. By focusing on this surface as a point of
encounter, Lucy Donkin positions it within a series of vertically
stacked layers-the earth itself, permanent and temporary floor
coverings, and the bodies of the living above ground and the dead
beneath-providing new perspectives on how sacred space was defined
and decorated, including the veneration of holy footprints,
consecration ceremonies, and the demarcation of certain places for
particular activities. Using a wide array of visual and textual
sources, Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages also details
ways in which interaction with this surface shaped people's
identities, whether as individuals, office holders, or members of
religious communities. Gestures such as trampling and prostration,
the repeated employment of specific locations, and burial beneath
particular people or actions used the surface to express likeness
and difference. From pilgrimage sites in the Holy Land to
cathedrals, abbeys, and local parish churches across the Latin
West, Donkin frames the ground as a shared surface, both a feature
of diverse, distant places and subject to a variety of uses over
time-while also offering a model for understanding spatial
relationships in other periods, regions, and contexts.
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