The maps of Matthew Paris
Subtitle: medieval journeys through space, time and liturgy
By: Daniel K. Connolly
Contributors: Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781843834786
Subjects: Maps; Cartography; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages; Medieval Geography; Kartographie; Historische Karte; History
Description: "The illustrations of the Benedictine monk, artist, and chronicler Matthew Paris offer a gateway into the thirteenth-century world. This new study of his cartography emphasizes the striking innovations he brought to it, and shows how the maps became an investment and repository of certain medieval spatial practices: travel through the world, the occurrence of history in that world, and the religious practices and devotional attitudes that were assiduously cultivated within the larger visual culture of St. Albans abbey (in great measure produced by Matthew's own images)." "Travel (i.e. space), history (time ), and devotion (liturgy) are the primary issues and meanings deposited in and registered by Matthew Paris' cartographic landscape. In searching out these contexts, the book explores the paradigm of imagined pilgrimage as an organizing principle that pushes into greater relief medieval understanding of the arrangements of places and of histories: thus travelling through --

geography could enact that geography's meanings in a dynamic, religious, even devotional performance of the maps' materials." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: Taken in the spirit : imagined pilgrimage in medieval spirituality and art; title: Journeys through space : the codex as conveyance; title: Journeys through time : the format of history; title: Journeys through time : geography as prophecy; title: Journeys through liturgy; title: Monarchical journeys : the king's gaze, the "royal" itinerary and Matthew's maps of Britain.