Art, architecture, and the moving viewer, c.300-1500 CE : : unfolding narratives / / edited by Gillian B. Elliott and Anne Heath.

• Superior document: Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; Volume 18
• TeilnehmendeR: Elliott, Gillian B.,; Heath, Anne
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; Volume 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (506 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

Premodern architecture and built environments were fluid spaces whose configurations and meanings were constantly adapting and changing. The production of transitory meaning transpired whenever a body or object moved through these dynamic spaces. Whether spanning the short duration of a procession o...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Unfolding Narratives: An Introduction
• Part 1 Moving Bodies in Space and Narrative
• Chapter 1 Seeing and Not Seeing the Rose Window of Lausanne Cathedral
• Chapter 2 Engaging the Beholder through Image and Inscription in the 13th-Century Stained-Glass Window of St. Margaret of Antioch at Ardagger Abbey
• Chapter 3 Circulating among Friends: Mary Magdalene, Martha, and Lazarus and the Pilgrimage to the Holy Tear at the Abbey of La Trinité, Vendôme
• Part 2 Topography and Politicizing Space
• Chapter 4 Written in Stone: Recovering the Magical Role of the locus sanctus in the Medieval Life of San Millán de la Cogolla
• Chapter 5 Reading Architecture in Landscape: Visitor Reflections at a Mirror Wall (Sigiriya, Sri Lanka)
• Chapter 6 A Holy Hole, Anglo-Saxon Bones, and a Jerusalem Chapel: Redefining Sacred Geography at Winchester Cathedral in the 12th Century
• Chapter 7 Theatrum Paulli or Balneum Paulli: Interpreting the Markets of Trajan in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Part 3 Spatial Alteration and Reception
• Chapter 8 Transformation at the Garden Gate: The Romanesque Parapets of San Pietro al Monte in Civate
• Chapter 9 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, Charlieu
• Chapter 10 From Mosque-Cathedral to Gothic Cathedral: Rewriting and Rebuilding in Medieval Toledo
• Chapter 11 Change Unchanging: Mediating the Sacred Spaces of Ise Grand Shrines over Time
• Part 4 Assembly and Space
• Chapter 12 On the Road to the Great Hof: Moving through Space and Time at Old Uppsala
• Chapter 13 Abbot Gauzlin's Tower Porch in Fleury (c.1015-30): A Social Narrative in Favor of the Capetians.
• Chapter 14 The South Portal at the Cathedral of Le Mans as a Processional Objective
• Chapter 15 Storming the Palace: Crowd Incursions into Aristocratic Spaces in Medieval Revolts
• Conclusion
• Index.