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The International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art was founded in 2000 to bring together scholars who explore the art and architecture of pilgrimage in the late Middle Ages. We wish to provide a forum for themes and topics related to that subject, and to share current research. It is our hope to reconstruct more fully the sites in Europe which were goals for those who journeyed in pursuit of experience of the sacred, as it was mediated by works of art created for the cults of saints who were venerated in various regional centers. The artistic expressions which were created to give form to the cults are the objects of our investigation. The Society publishes Peregrinations.
For more information, contact: Sarah Blick, Art History, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022 USA; tel (740) 427-5347, e-mail blicks@kenyon.edu or Rita Tekippe, Art Department, University of West Georgia, 324 Humanities Hall, Carrollton, GA 30118; tel (770) 836-4532, fax (770) 836-4392, e-mail rtekippe@westga.edu.
Hawking from the Labors of the Months; Easby, North Yorkshire (Ripon)
England, thirteenth century
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The volume, Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles is a collection of 27 essays edited by Sarah Blick and Rita Tekippe on the visual experience and material culture at medieval pilgrimage shrines of northern Europe and the British Isles, particularly the art and architecture created to intensify spiritual experience for visitors. These studies focus on regional pilgrimage centers which flourished from the 12th-16th centuries, addressing various aspects of visual imagery and architectural space which inspired devotees to value cults of enshrined saints and to venerate them in memory from afar. Subjects include pilgrim dress, jeweled and painted reliquaries, labyrinths, elaborate processions, printed texts of the saint's life, shrines, sculpture and other architectural decoration, and pilgrim souvenirs. Profusely illustrated with 350 photographs, this work will interest scholars and students of art history, history, religious studies, and popular culture.
Readership: Written by and for scholars, but intentionally accessible to a general readership interested in medieval pilgrimage, art, saints' cults, European history, popular culture, theology, religious studies, and Church history. See
http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue_sub6_id10147.htm
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