Sacral Architecture on the Horizon: The Sacred Landscape of Medieval Pilgrims Chapter I: The Sacred Landscape of Medieval Pilgrims.Introduction Migrating Art Historians: Objects, Bodies, and Minds.Prologue The Journey as Intensity: Becoming a Pilgrim.What emerges is the subject confronted with the experience of medieval art. ![]() Original scientific art historical research combines with personal engagement. Structured as a walk along pilgrimage routes, this book presents firstly the landscape, followed by liminal zones, before leading the reader inside medieval churches and ultimately towards the sacred. In this context, exhausted and activated bodies became instruments asking new questions to medieval artworks and sources. One year later, this book presents their intellectual, human, and art historical theoretical know-how, transformed by the experience of their bodies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Journeying by foot over more than 1500km, twelve modern pilgrims – students and scholars from Masaryk University – reached some of the most impressive artistic monuments of medieval France. And yet, the experimental project Migrating Art Historians sought to delve into this impossibility. Is it possible to reconstruct the feeling of a medieval pilgrim walking towards the sacred? No, it is not.
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