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).

'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

• VOLUME I (Texts)AcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I. THE PILGRIM’S JOURNEY: VISION AND REALITY1. Pilgrims and Fashion: The Functions of Pilgrims’ Garments, Anja Grebe2. Spiritual Pilgrimage in the Paintings of Hans Memling, Vida J. Hull3. Hans Memling’s St. Ursula Shrine: The Subject as Object of Pilgrimage, Jeanne Nuechterlein4. A Case Study of the Relationship between Painting and Flamboyant Architecture: The St.-Esprit Chapel at Rue, in Picardy, Claire LabrecquePART II. HOUSING FOR SAINTS: CHURCHES AND SHRINES5. The Eventful Lives of Two Mosan Châsses, Albert Lemeunier6. Architectural Representations on the Medallions of the Heribert Shrine, Ilana Abend-David7. Pilgrimage to Chartres: The Visual Evidence, James BugslagPART III. EXPERIENCE AND ICONOGRAPHY AT PILGRIMAGE CENTERS: DISCERNING MEANING8. The Journey to Emmaus Capital at Saint-Lazare of Autun, William J. Travis9. Portals, Processions, Pilgrimage, and Piety: Saints Firmin and Honoré at Amiens, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin10. Pilgrimage, Performance, and Stained Glass at Canterbury Cathedral, Anne F. HarrisPART IV. CONNECTIONS TO JERUSALEM AND THE HOLY JERUSALEM THROUGH PILGRIMAGE SITES11. At the Center of the World: The Labyrinth Pavement of Chartres Cathedral, Daniel K. Connolly12. The Architecture and Iconographical Sources of the Church of Neuvy-Saint-Sépulcre, Nora Laos13. Relics and Reliquaries of the True Cross, Kelly M. Holbert14. Erit Sepulcrum Ejus ... Gloriosum: Verisimilitude and the Tomb of Christ in the Art of Twelfth-Century Île-de-France, Stephen LamiaPART V. PILGRIM SOUVENIRS: MEANING AND FUNCTION15. Medieval Pilgrim Badges and Their Iconographic Aspects, Marike de Kroon16. Reconstructing the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket, Canterbury Cathedral, Sarah Blick17. Pilgrim Ampullae from Vendôme: Souvenirs from a Pilgrimage to the Holy Tear of Christ, Katja Boertjes18. Searching for Signs: Pilgrims’ Identity and Experience Made Visible in the Miracula Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis, Jennifer M. Lee19. “Shameless and Naked Images”: Obscene Badges as Parodies of Popular Devotion, Jos KoldeweijPART VI. COMMON CAUSE FOR MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANS: POLITICS AND PRACTICALITIES OF CULT DEVELOPMENT20. Doubt and Authority in the Host-Miracle Shrines of Orvieto and Wilsnack, Kristen Van Ausdall21. Building a Presbytery for St. Æthelthryth: Bishop Hugh de Northwold and the Politics of Cult Production in Thirteenth-Century England, Virginia Blanton22. ‘Y Me Tarde’: The Valois, Pilgrimage, and the Chartreuse de Champmol, Laura D. Gelfand23. Channels of Grace: Pilgrimage Architecture, Eucharistic Imagery, and Visions of Purgatory at the Host-Miracle Churches of Late Medieval Germany, Mitchell B. MerbackPART VII. CULTS AND CULT PRACTICES: EVOLUTION AND EXPRESSION24. The Iconography of the Rheno-Mosan Châsses of the Thirteenth Century, Benoît Van den Bossche25. Relics and Pilgrimage in the Xylographic Book of St. Servatius of Maastricht, Scott B. Montgomery26. Pilgrimage and Procession: Correlations of Meaning, Practice, and Effects, Rita Tekippe27. The Aachen Karlsschrein and Marienschrein, Lisa Victoria CiresiBibliographyIndexVOLUME II (Plates)List of IllustrationsIllustrations