Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles

by Brill, R. Tekippe (Editor), Rita Tekippe (Editor)

Overview

This collection includes essays on the visual experience and material culture at medieval pilgrimage shrines of northern Europe and the British Isles, particularly the art and architecture created to intensify spiritual experience for visitors. These studies focus on regional pilgrimage centers which flourished from the 12th-16th centuries, addressing various aspects of visual imagery and architectural space which inspired devotees to value cults of enshrined saints and to venerate them in memory from afar. Subjects include pilgrim dress, jeweled and painted reliquaries, labyrinths, elaborate processions, printed texts of the saint's life, shrines, sculpture and other architectural decoration, and pilgrim souvenirs. Profusely illustrated with 350 photographs, this work will interest scholars and students of art history, history, religious studies, and popular culture.

Contributors include: Ilana Abend-David, Virginia Blanton, Sarah Blick, Katja Boertjes, James Bugslag, Lisa Victoria Ciresi, Daniel K. Connolly, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Laura D. Gelfand, Anja Grebe, Anne F. Harris, Kelly M. Holbert, Vida J. Hull, Jos Koldeweij, Marike de Kroon, Claire Labrecque, Stephen Lamia, Nora Laos, Jennifer M. Lee, Albert Lemeunier, Mitchell B. Merback, Scott B. Montgomery, Jeanne Nuechterlein, Rita Tekippe, William J. Travis, Kristen Van Ausdall, Benoît Van den Bossche. All volumes of the print edition will become available in individual e-books: 9789047430070 (volume 1) - 9789047430087 (volume 2).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004123328
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/01/2004
Series:	Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions Series , #104
Pages:	1184
Product dimensions:	6.54(w) x 9.52(h) x 3.18(d)

About the Author

Sarah Blick, Ph.D. (1994) in Art History, University of Kansas, is Associate Professor of Art History at Kenyon College. Her research and publications focus on medieval pilgrim souvenirs and the cult of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
Rita W. Tekippe, Ph.D. (1999) in Art History, The Ohio State University. Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia. Research and publications include pilgrimage sites and artifacts, procession, medieval politics and rulership (secular and ecclesiastical).

Table of Contents

VOLUME I (Texts)

Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I. THE PILGRIM’S JOURNEY: VISION AND REALITY
1. Pilgrims and Fashion: The Functions of Pilgrims’ Garments, Anja Grebe
2. Spiritual Pilgrimage in the Paintings of Hans Memling, Vida J. Hull
3. Hans Memling’s St. Ursula Shrine: The Subject as Object of Pilgrimage, Jeanne Nuechterlein
4. A Case Study of the Relationship between Painting and Flamboyant Architecture: The St.-Esprit Chapel at Rue, in Picardy, Claire Labrecque

PART II. HOUSING FOR SAINTS: CHURCHES AND SHRINES
5. The Eventful Lives of Two Mosan Châsses, Albert Lemeunier
6. Architectural Representations on the Medallions of the Heribert Shrine, Ilana Abend-David
7. Pilgrimage to Chartres: The Visual Evidence, James Bugslag

PART III. EXPERIENCE AND ICONOGRAPHY AT PILGRIMAGE CENTERS: DISCERNING MEANING
8. The Journey to Emmaus Capital at Saint-Lazare of Autun, William J. Travis
9. Portals, Processions, Pilgrimage, and Piety: Saints Firmin and Honoré at Amiens, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
10. Pilgrimage, Performance, and Stained Glass at Canterbury Cathedral, Anne F. Harris

PART IV. CONNECTIONS TO JERUSALEM AND THE HOLY JERUSALEM THROUGH PILGRIMAGE SITES
11. At the Center of the World: The Labyrinth Pavement of Chartres Cathedral, Daniel K. Connolly
12. The Architecture and Iconographical Sources of the Church of Neuvy-Saint-Sépulcre, Nora Laos
13. Relics and Reliquaries of the True Cross, Kelly M. Holbert
14. Erit Sepulcrum Ejus ... Gloriosum: Verisimilitude and the Tomb of Christ in the Art of Twelfth-Century Île-de-France, Stephen Lamia

PART V. PILGRIM SOUVENIRS: MEANING AND FUNCTION
15. Medieval Pilgrim Badges and Their Iconographic Aspects, Marike de Kroon
16. Reconstructing the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket, Canterbury Cathedral, Sarah Blick
17. Pilgrim Ampullae from Vendôme: Souvenirs from a Pilgrimage to the Holy Tear of Christ, Katja Boertjes
18. Searching for Signs: Pilgrims’ Identity and Experience Made Visible in the Miracula Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis, Jennifer M. Lee
19. “Shameless and Naked Images”: Obscene Badges as Parodies of Popular Devotion, Jos Koldeweij

PART VI. COMMON CAUSE FOR MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANS: POLITICS AND PRACTICALITIES OF CULT DEVELOPMENT
20. Doubt and Authority in the Host-Miracle Shrines of Orvieto and Wilsnack, Kristen Van Ausdall
21. Building a Presbytery for St. Æthelthryth: Bishop Hugh de Northwold and the Politics of Cult Production in Thirteenth-Century England, Virginia Blanton
22. ‘Y Me Tarde’: The Valois, Pilgrimage, and the Chartreuse de Champmol, Laura D. Gelfand
23. Channels of Grace: Pilgrimage Architecture, Eucharistic Imagery, and Visions of Purgatory at the Host-Miracle Churches of Late Medieval Germany, Mitchell B. Merback

PART VII. CULTS AND CULT PRACTICES: EVOLUTION AND EXPRESSION
24. The Iconography of the Rheno-Mosan Châsses of the Thirteenth Century, Benoît Van den Bossche
25. Relics and Pilgrimage in the Xylographic Book of St. Servatius of Maastricht, Scott B. Montgomery
26. Pilgrimage and Procession: Correlations of Meaning, Practice, and Effects, Rita Tekippe
27. The Aachen Karlsschrein and Marienschrein, Lisa Victoria Ciresi

Bibliography
Index


VOLUME II (Plates)

List of Illustrations
Illustrations

Editorial Reviews

'The 27 essays in this immense two-volume, 1000-page tome each present a case study of the interaction between the visual arts and the phenomenally widespread and tenacious practice of religious pilgrimage in the late Middle Ages. These ambitious volumes point to the great deal of interest in the field of "pilgrimage arts."...the contributors deserve sincere congratulations for assembling the most extensive and useful group of studies about the intersection of image and pilgrimage in Northern Europe ever published.'
Kathryn M. Rudy, Renaissance Quarterly, 2005.

'Each essay is meticulously researched and amply documented, and the volume includes an extensive international bibliography. It is also accompanied by a volume of plates to illustrate each essay. The collection is recommended for college libraries and will be of interest to historians of religion, spirituality, art and architecture, and the physical cultures of the high Middle Ages.'
Wanda Zemler-Cizewski, Theological Studies, 2006.

Cumulatively these essays make an impressive and reasonably coherent whole, although they cannot, of course, furnish a complete survey of northern European pilgrimage. One’s attention is persistently drawn to the riches of the sources; it is hard to imagine a reader, however well-informed, who will not discover the unfamiliar and intriguing in text or footnotes. The editors have performed a big job pretty well (…)
Diana Webb, Speculum

‘This monumental volume of essays is a wonderful, albeit expensive addition to the literature on pilgrimage. The collection contains twenty-seven essays, and in the second volume are 348 black-and-white images that illustrate the articles. As the title indicates, the collection focuses on northern Europe and the British Isles (…).
Despite its size, this volume is nicely coherent and of uniformly high quality.’
Katherine L. French, State University of New York at New Paltz, Sixteenth Century Journal

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