Introduction Liminal Spaces Inside and Beyond the Byzantine World Myrto Veikou and Buket Kitapçi Bayri Part I: Natural Space as Liminal Chapter 1 Encounters in Crocodile Waters: The Nile as a Liminal Riverscape in Monastic Egypt Darlene Brooks Hedstrom Chapter 2 Desert Islands: Aspects of the Byzantine Perception of Liminal Space Charis Messis Chapter 3 Liminal Insularity or Islandness? Relational and Comparative Perspectives on Big Islands in the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea in the Early Middle Ages (Sixth-Tenth Centuries) Luca Zavagno, Christoph Kilger and Max Kusserow Part II: Social Space as Liminal: Public and Private Chapter 4 Myths Transformed: Perceptions of Ancient Sculpture in Byzantine Liminal Spaces Livia Bevilacqua Chapter 5 Liminal Experiences of Byzantine Fortifications Nikolas Bakirtzis and Myrto Veikou Chapter 6 Visiting Late Antique Elite Houses: On Rituals, Routes, and Courtyards through the Lens of Liminality Lale Özgenel Chapter 7 Crossing Private Liminal Spaces: Thresholds and Passageways in the "Urban Mansion" of Sagalassos and Contemporaneous Urban Elite Houses in Late Antique Western Anatolia Inge Uytterhoeven Chapter 8 Existential and Spatial Liminality in Byzantine Monasteries: Insights from the Enclosure Wall and its Gateways Maréva U Part III: Liminality through Movement Chapter 9 Athonite Transhumance Routes between the Ninth and the Sixteenth Centuries: A Network of Liminal Ecosystems, Spaces, and Interactions Guillaume Bidaut Chapter 10 Marking the limen: Lighthouses and Beacons as Spiritual Metaphors Veronica della Dora Chapter 11 Perceptions of Bridges as Liminal Spaces in Byzantium Galina Fingarova.