Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500

This book synthesizes the work of a distinguished international group of scholars. It takes a broad view of architecture, to include cities, routes and ritual topographies, as well as specific buildings and shrines, and considers how these were perceived, represented and remembered. The essays explore both the ways in which the physical embodiment of pilgrimage cultures is shared, and what we can learn from the differences.

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.