Space in the Medieval West

List of Figures vii
List of Maps ix
List of Tables xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
List of Abbreviations xix
Introduction / Meredith Cohen, Fanny Madeline, and Dominique Iogna-Prat 1
Part I. Places, Monuments, and Cities
1. Squarely Built: an Inquiry into the Sources of 'Ad Quadratum' Geometry in Lombard Architecture Between the Eleventh and the Twelfth Centuries / Emanuele Lugli 21
2. The Geometry of Rib Vaulting at Notre-Dame of Paris: Architectural or Exegetical Space? / Stefaan Van Liefferinge 37
3. Gothic Drawing and the Shaping of Space / Robert Bork 51
4. Marking the City for Christ: Spatiality and the Invention of Utrecht’s Medieval Cross of Churches / David Ross Winter 77
Part II. Spatial Networks and Territories
5. From 'Plebs' to 'Parochia': The Perception of the Church in Space from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century (Dioceses of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo) / Anne Lunven (translated from the French by Emanuele Lugli) 99
6. New Masters of Space: The Creation of Communication Networks in the West (Eleventh–Twelfth Centuries) / Thomas Wetzstein (translated from the French by Raeleen Chai-Elsholz) 115
7. Inventing Legal Space: From Regional Custom to Common Law in the 'Coutumiers' of Medieval France / Ada-Maria Kuskowski 133
Part III. Cartography and Imagined Geographies
8. The Image of France in the Beatus Map of Saint-Sever / Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez 159
9. France in the Two Geographical Works of Al-Idrīsī (Sicily, Twelfth Century) / Jean-Charles Ducène (translated from the French by Robert Bork) 175
10. From Gaul to the Kingdom of France: Representations of French Space in the Geographical Texts of the Middle Ages (Twelfth–Fifteenth Centuries) / Nathalie Bouloux (translated from the French by Katherine Bork) 197
11. The Definition and Boundaries of Eucharistic Space in the Grail Prose Romances: Focalization and Dissemination / Catherine Nicolas (translated from the French by Raeleen Chai-Elsholz) 219
Frequently Cited Sources 233
Index 235