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Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500: Southern Europe and Beyond book cover

1st Edition

Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500 Southern Europe and Beyond

Edited By Paul Davies, Deborah Howard, Wendy Pullan Copyright 2013
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

Although there is an obvious association between pilgrimage and place, relatively little research has centred directly on the role of architecture. 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... Read more
Introduction, Paul Davies and Deborah Howard; Part A Mediterranean Perspectives: Pilgrimage through pictures in medieval Byzantine churches, Henry Maguire; The four faces of the Ka'ba, Avinoam Shalem; Tracking the habitual: observations on the pilgrim's shell, Wendy Pullan; Venice as gateway to the Holy Land: pilgrims as agents of transmission, Deborah Howard. Part B Italian Sacred Places as Pilgrimage Destinations: Icons 'in the air': new settings for the sacred in medieval Rome, Claudia Bolgia; Dominican shrines and urban pilgrimage in later-medieval Italy, Joanna Cannon; Imagery and the economy of penance at the tomb of St Francis, Donal Cooper and Janet Robson; Likeness in Italian Renaissance pilgrimage architecture, Paul Davies; Two Marian image shrines in 15th-century Tuscany, the 'iconography of architecture' and the limits of 'holy competition', Robert Maniura; Afterword: pilgrimage and transformation, Herbert L. Kessler; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Paul Davies is Reader in Architectural History at the University of Reading, UK.

Deborah Howard is Professor of Architectural History and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge University, UK.

Wendy Pullan is Director of the Martin Centre for Research, Department of Architecture, Cambridge University, UK.

'The work is highly engaging, and well worth looking through if dealing with the subject of late medieval architecture, pilgrimage, as well as broader aspects of aesthetics, iconography or material culture.' Hortulus

'Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500. Southern Europe and Beyond is, in sum, an invigorating volume because it encourages the reader to think again about familiar objects and monuments, be they scallop shells or Marian shrines, in new ways and in new relationships. Many of the studies are especially effective in urging deeper thought about the movement of the spectator/participant and about the nature of the similarities between or among a group of monuments.' The Medieval Review

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