The maps of Matthew Paris : medieval journeys through space, time and liturgy / Daniel K. Connolly

Author: Connolly, Daniel K.
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press, 2009.
Physical Description: x, 224 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Additional Creators: Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259

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TAKEN IN THE SPIRIT: IMAGINED PILGRIMAGE IN MEDIEVAL SPIRITUALITY AND ART: The maps -- The artist -- The end of the world in the Chronica majora -- The monastic audience -- Imagined pilgrimage -- Monastic meditations -- JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE: THE CODEX AS CONVEYANCE: Seeing and beholding -- A sensate vehicle for imagined pilgrimage -- Homologous practices of bodily place -- Homologous practices of bodily mapping - liturgy -- Machina universitatis: book as exegetical machine -- JOURNEYS THROUGH TIME: THE FORMAT OF HISTORY: Format -- Genealogies -- Medieval theories of history -- JOURNEYS THROUGH TIME: GEOGRAPHY AS PROPHECY: City founding -- Movements of empire -- Performing history -- JOURNEYS THROUGH LITURGY : The Jerusalems of CCCC Mss. 26 and 16, and the Easter Liturgy at St. Albans -- Liturgical books, maps, aumbries, and Easter Sepulchres -- Mappae mundi: the body of Christ as an extended metaphor -- MONARCHICAL JOURNEYS: THE KING'S GAZE, THE "ROYAL" ITINERARY, AND MATTHEWS MAPS OF BRITAIN: The two versions -- Plantagenet cartography -- Maps of Britain.

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9781843834786
1843834782

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-215) and index.

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