Art, Architecture, and the Moving Viewer, c. 300-1500 CE

Gillian B. Elliott, Ph.D. (2005), University of Texas at Austin, is Professorial Lecturer of Medieval Art History at George Washington University. She has published articles about Romanesque sculpture and the book Sculpted Thresholds and the Liturgy of Transformation in Medieval Lombardy (Routledge, 2022).Anne Heath, Ph.D. (2005), Brown University, is the Howard R. and Margaret E. Sluyter Associate Professor of Art History at Hope College, Michigan. Her essays on Gothic architecture and performance culture have appeared in the journals Viator and Speculum.

'Art, Architecture, and the Moving Viewer, c. 300-1500 CE offers the readers a thoughtfully curated series of fifteen essays that explore holistic approaches to medieval spaces as they may have been experienced by contemporaries of various social classes over time. Through the agency of “the moving viewer,” the chapters yoke symbolic readings of spaces, artwork, and architecture in settings ranging from an intimate side chapel to an immense rock-mound mesa [...] the volume’s editors and chapter authors succeed in bringing provocative discoveries to the global readership of medievalists in art, architectural, and spatial history. It is a collection that supports and extends research into the nuances and details of cultural reception theory and, perhaps further along, into the neurological understanding of medieval environments.' Kim Sexton, in The Medieval Review 23.05.06.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsUnfolding Narratives: An IntroductionGillian B. Elliott and Anne HeathPART 1: Moving Bodies in Space and Narrative1 Seeing and Not Seeing the Rose Window of Lausanne CathedralElizabeth Carson Pastan and Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz2 Engaging the Beholder through Image and Inscription in the 13th-Century Stained-Glass Window of St. Margaret of Antioch at Ardagger AbbeyAshley J. Laverock3 Circulating among Friends: Mary Magdalene, Martha, and Lazarus and the Pilgrimage to the Holy Tear at the Abbey of La Trinité, VendômeAnne HeathPART 2: Topography and Politicizing Space4 Written in Stone: Recovering the Magical Role of the locus sanctus in the Medieval Life of San Millán de la CogollaKelly Thor5 Reading Architecture in Landscape: Visitor Reflections at a Mirror Wall (Sigiriya, Sri Lanka)Divya Kumar-Dumas6 A Holy Hole, Anglo-Saxon Bones, and a Jerusalem Chapel: Redefining Sacred Geography at Winchester Cathedral in the 12th CenturyLaura J. Whatley7 Theatrum Paulli or Balneum Paulli: Interpreting the Markets of Trajan in the Middle Ages and RenaissancePhilip JacksPART 3: Spatial Alteration and Reception8 Transformation at the Garden Gate: The Romanesque Parapets of San Pietro al Monte in CivateGillian B. Elliott9 Between Universal and Local Practices: The Unfolding Narrative of the Resurrection of the Christ and Its Public in the Wide-Open Galilee at the Priory of St. Fortunatus, CharlieuElodie Leschot10 From Mosque-Cathedral to Gothic Cathedral: Rewriting and Rebuilding in Medieval ToledoNicole Corrigan11 Change Unchanging: Mediating the Sacred Spaces of Ise Grand Shrines over TimeChristopher A. BornPART 4: Assembly and Space12 On the Road to the Great Hof: Moving through Space and Time at Old UppsalaMeghan Mattsson McGinnis13 Abbot Gauzlin’s Tower Porch in Fleury (c.1015–30): A Social Narrative in Favor of the CapetiansBarbara Franzé14 The South Portal at the Cathedral of Le Mans as a Processional ObjectiveSusan Leibacher Ward15 Storming the Palace: Crowd Incursions into Aristocratic Spaces in Medieval RevoltsMichael SizerConclusionIndex