Architecture and pilgrimage, 1000-1500 : southern Europe and beyond

Architecture and pilgrimage, 1000-1500 : southern Europe and beyond / edited by Paul Davies, Deborah Howard and Wendy Pullan.

"Architecture and pilgrimage, 1000-1500: southern Europe and beyond" synthesizes the work of a distinguished international group of scholars. It takes a broad view of architecture, to include cities, routes, ritual topographies and human interaction with the natural environment, as well as...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington : Ashgate, 2013.
Subjects:
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages > Europe, Southern > History > To 1500.
Sacred space > Europe, Southern > History > To 1500.
Table of Contents:
  • Mediterranean perspectives. Pilgrimage through Pictures in Medieval Byzantine Churches / Henry Maguire, Johns Hopkins University
  • The Four Faces of the Kaʻba / Avinoam Shalem, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich
  • Tracking the Habitual: Observations on the Pilgrim's Shell / Wendy Pullan, University of Cambridge
  • Venice as Gateway to the Holy Land: Pilgrims as Agents of Transmission / Deborah Howard, University of Cambridge
  • Italian sacred places as pilgrimage destinations. Icons 'in the air': New settings for the Sacred in Medieval Rome / Claudia Bolgia, University of Edinburgh
  • Dominican shrines and Urban Pilgrimage in Later-Medieval Italy / Joanna Cannon, Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Imagery and the Economy of Penance at the Tomb of St Francis / Donal Cooper, University of Warwick and Janet Robson, Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Likeness in Italian Renaissance Pilgrimage Architecture / Paul Davies, University of Reading
  • Two Marian Image Shrines in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany, the 'Iconography of Architecture' and the Limits of 'Holy Competition' / Robert Maniura, Birkbeck, University of London.

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