In this thesis, the imagery of water serves as a point of focus for an inquiry into the composition of
medieval abstract space. As a ubiquitous element of human life with distinct properties and
connotations across time, water touches, and has ever touched upon, both what is historically and
culturally unique and what is ongoing within environmental imagination. This study examines the
significance and the deployment of environmental imagery in the composition, narration, and
recollection of organised thought in the Middle Ages.