Volume IX, Issue 2 (Autumn 2024)

This issue focuses on new interpretations and approaches to understanding complicated imagery and thought. Gregor Von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk examines how dedication miniatures in Ottonian manuscripts reflects the intertwined goals of royalty and sacred power. Stephen Westich queries the absence of some expected forms and iconography and what it implies in the St. Alban’s Psalter. Alessandro Piana peels back layers of history to discuss the material culture around Othonis de Rocha in Athens and how the legend grew and continues to change today. Isabelle Ostertag, similarly, assembles the clues to how the cult of saints and the rise of Marian devotion affected monastic architecture at the Lady Chapel at St. Albans.

Feature Articles

Gregor Von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, A Gift that Keeps on Giving: The Egmond Dedication Miniatures in the Light of Aristocratic Donation Activity Around 1000, 1-31

Stephen Westich, The Present Absence: Eyewitnesses, Pilgrims, and the Anastasis Rotunda in the St. Albans Psalter, 32-60

Alessandro Piana, Othonis de Rocha Dominus Athenarum: Life, Documents and Testimonies of the First Lord of Athens (c. 1170 – c. 1234), 61-90

Isabelle Ostertag, Heavenly Court: The Lady Chapel at St. Albans, 91-120

Cut and Sell: Two Parchment Fragments and the Collection of Ethiopian Manuscripts in the West

Caitlin Mims

The Iconography and Roles of an Ascetic Monk: A Painting of Abba Samu’el of Waldabba

Madison Gilmore-Duffey

The Future

For future issues we are actively seeking articles on any aspect of medieval art and architecture, including: long and short scholarly articles, scholarly book reviews, review articles on issues facing the field of medieval art history, interesting notes and announcements, useful website recommendations, new archeological discoveries, and recent museum acquisitions. We are interested in publishing articles that will undergo double-blind review as well as those which are subject only to regular editing processes, including articles that are the result of preliminary research. We are also looking for images to add to our photobank, to be shared and used by anyone in the classroom and in their research. To round out the scholarly portion of the journal, we are also seeking short, amusing excerpts from medieval sources, comments on the Middle Ages in movies and popular culture, etc.

Our grateful appreciation and thanks for partial funding provided by Kenyon College. Programming and copy-editing: John Pepple and Artistic Advising: Karen Gerhart.

Again, welcome to Peregrinations. Any suggestions or comments you have concerning the journal would be most welcome.

Sarah Blick, Editor