Im Spatmittelalter bildete sich ein transmediterranes Netzwerk von Heiligen Orten, die mit der Seefahrt verbunden waren und sich durch ihre Lage am symbolischen Treffpunkt zwischen Meer, Land und Himmel hervorhoben. Die Aufsatze diese Bandes beschreiben die besondere Sakralgeographie der entlang der mittelalterlichen Seewege gelegenen Heiligtumer und erforschen deren Charakteristiken aus historischer, religions- und kunstgeschichtlicher Sicht."

(The open access version of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.) The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scene of the rulers' bodies. Its emphasis is on the ways in which medieval monarchs in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a variety of rituals, object-types, and media. Contributors are Michele Bacci, Nicolas Bock, Gerardo Boto Varela, Branislav Cvetkovic, Sofia Fernandez Pozzo, Gohar Grigoryan Savary, Elodie Leschot, Vinni Lucherini, Ioanna Rapti, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Marta Serrano-Coll, Lucinia Speciale, Manuela Studer-Karlen, Mirko Vagnoni, and Edda Vardanyan.