Sacred Space of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Hispanic Literature

is Professor at the University of Northumbria, having previously graduated from Manchester University and Hull University.

Twomey's readings are illuminating as commentaries on the works under scrutiny and as examples of a creative methodology, an approach that interprets space as a medium of characterization.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsSacred Spaces and Places: Constructing the Virgin Mary in Hispanic LiteratureA Feast of Miracles: Foreign Places, Foreign Spaces in Hispanic Miracle CollectionsHortus conclusus?: Virginity and Fruitful Space in Gonzalo de Berceo's Los Milagros de Nuestra SeñoraHolding and Reflecting the Water of Life in Gonzalo de Berceo's 'fuent': Wellsprings and Fountains as a Figure of the VirginFountains and their Architecture: Situating Fountains in the Poetry of the Marqués de Santillana and Other Fifteenth-Century PoetsThe Temple Gate, the Lions' Den, and the Furnace: Liminal Space in Gonzalo de Berceo's Marian PoetryRe-evaluating the Temple of God, the Tabernacle, the Ark, and the Reliquary in Late-Medieval PoetryHome is where the Heart is: Christ's Dwelling-Place from Gonzalo de Berceo's Loores de Nuestra Señora to the Vita Christi of Isabel de VillenaMary as a Strong Defence: the Protective Space of the Virgin Mary from Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria to Jaume Roig's Siege Engine'Más olías que ambargris': Perfumed Spaces and the Virgin in Fray Ambrosio Montesino's PoetryAfterwordAppendix: Marian Hymns in Hispanic LiturgiesBibliographyIndex