The Maps of Matthew Paris: Medieval Journeys Through Space, Time and Liturgy

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 emphasises the striking innovations he brought to it, and shows how his maps were designed to present imagined pilgrimages; the author argues that traveling through geography could enact its meanings in a dynamic, religious, even devotional performance of the maps' materials. Richly illustrated with colour and black and white plates.