Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles (2 Vols.)

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).

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.

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 Chasses, 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 Honore 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-Sepulcre, 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 Ile-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 Vendome: 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. Aethelthryth: 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 Chasses of the Thirteenth Century, Benoit 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 E ects, Rita Tekippe 27. The Aachen Karlsschrein and Marienschrein, Lisa Victoria Ciresi Bibliography Index VOLUME II (Plates) List of Illustrations Illustrations