Aanbieding Rome 1300: On the Path of the Pilgrim – Herbert L. Kessler

This book combines history and art history in very readable form. It is through an imagined woman’s eyes that the authors and the reader see and are affected by the religious sites and rituals of Rome 1300 (e.g., the night-long procession of the icon of Christ from the Lateran to join the icon of Mary at S. Maria Maggiore across the city). The purpose of the book is to present medieval Rome as a living environment, to show how the major churches and the sacred relics, frescoes, icons, and mosaics within the…