A THIRTEENTH CENTURY MEDITATIONAL TOOL: MATTHEW PARIS’S ITINERARY MAPS Cover Image

A THIRTEENTH CENTURY MEDITATIONAL TOOL: MATTHEW PARIS’S ITINERARY MAPS
A THIRTEENTH CENTURY MEDITATIONAL TOOL: MATTHEW PARIS’S ITINERARY MAPS

Author(s): Dana Vasiliu
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: meditation; orientation; pilgrimage; spatiality

Summary/Abstract: This paper looks into the way in which Matthew Paris’s itinerary maps served as prompts for cloistered monastics to conduct imagined pilgrimages to Jerusalem, the centre of Christianity. Moreover, this paper aims at discussing the relationship between different potential types of users: viewers/readers/travelers and the itineraries at hand.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 167-178
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English