Volume IX, Issue 3 (Spring 2025)

Speakers in “Mappings” sessions at the International Medieval Congress on the Study of the Middle Ages, held every year at the International Medieval Congress at University of Leeds (and, for a time, at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo), were invited to submit extended and deepened versions of their talks for consideration in Mappings issues of peer-reviewed Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture. This Spring 2025 offering marks “Mappings” 20th anniversary by offering new work by Gerda Brunnlechner, Lehrgebiet Geschichte und Gegenwart Alteuropas, Fernuniversität, Historisches Institut, Hagen; Rachel Dressler, Associate Professor of Art History Emerita, University at Albany, New York; and Jost Schmid-Lanter, Head of the Map Department, Zentralbibliothek, Zurich.

Feature Articles

Asa Mittman & Dan Terkla, Introduction to the “Mappings” Issue, 1-2

Jost Schmid-Lanter, The Advent of the Astrolabe in St. Gallen and Notker Teutonicus’ Cosmographic Globe (c. 1015), 3-29

Rachel Dressler, Mapping the Conquest in the Bayeux Embroidery, 30-62

Gerda Brunnlechner, Cartography between Ptolemaic Accuracy and Scope for Communication: The ‘Genoese World Map’ Dated 1457, 64-84

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