Lucy Donkin
Cultural and art historian of the Middle Ages who researches perceptions of place and material culture, and author of Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 2022).
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Feb 9, 2026 • 1h 8min
Lucy Donkin, "Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Lucy Donkin, cultural and art historian of the Middle Ages, explores how floors and ground shaped sacred spaces. She discusses holy footprints as contact relics, consecration rituals written in ash, and how paving, materials, and carpets marked status and liturgical roles. She also covers trampling, buried graves beneath feet, and surprising modern parallels.
