1st Edition
Experiencing Space Roman, Byzantine, and Medieval Contexts
Introduction: Space and the History of Experience in a Long-Term Perspective
Saku Pihko, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, and Ville Vuolanto
1. The Experience of Republican Ideas and Practices in the Roman Urban Space
Kaius Tuori
2. Imperial Authors’ Re-experience of Greco-Roman Geography
Eleni Bozia
3. Blending Places: Byzantine Children’s Experiences of Spaces beyond the Private–Public Dichotomy
Oana-Maria Cojocaru
4. A Corpse in the Room: Spatial Practices after Death in Late Medieval Sweden
Jyrki Nissi
5. Everyday Walks: Practices and Experiences of Space in Late Medieval Paris
Veronika Novák
6. Late Republican Administrative Space and Spatial Experience in Cicero’s Letters
Juhana Heikonen
7. Magistrates in the Domus: Modelling Pompeian Houses
Samuli Simelius
8. Sacred Spaces, Working Places, and Urban Environment in Ancient Ostia
Marja-Leena Hänninen
9. Crossing the Threshold of a Byzantine Church: The Experience of the Spatial Transition
Maréva U
10. Medieval Pilgrimage as Passageway: St Patrick’s Purgatory
Eileen Gardiner
Epilogue: Experience and the History of Space
Carlos Machado
Biography
Sari Katajala-Peltomaa is currently Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland. Her publications include Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe (2020) and Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion (2022; ed. with Raisa Toivo).
Saku Pihko has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences at Tampere University (2024–2025) and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku.
Ville Vuolanto is Senior Lecturer in history and Latin at Tampere University. His publications include Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity (2015) and co-edited volumes such as A Cultural History of Youth in Antiquity (2023) and Pursuing Hope in the Premodern World (2025).
