"The Tour Guide in the Middle Ages: Guide Culture and the Mediation of Public Art," Art Bulletin 100 (2018) 36-67. (original) (raw)

Abstract

One of the great premises of medieval popular religion was the localization of the holy, the essential principle of the pilgrimage. At the same time, there was a widespread equation between excessive art and holiness. One result of these complementary dynamics was that many pilgrims felt that the localization of the holy was indicated by an elevated artistic environment, an attitude that was used at times by religious institutions at some holy sites to meet the expectations of some great experience on the part of the tens and even hundreds of thousands of visitors who are recorded as having annually visited these places. At the high point of the pilgrimage (11th-12th centuries), almost all of these pilgrims had no or only very little formal education. And so the question arises, given the important role of art in the lived experience, how was this often complex form of visual media negotiated in this unique intersection of high culture and the non-elite in actual practice? In other words, what provided the crucial interface for a largely uneducated public and the often phenomenally expensive art programs that had been created almost entirely for their benefit, practically speaking? Or, put another way still, was there such a thing as a "tour guide" in the Middle Ages? This study investigates the medieval "tour guide" or, perhaps better, it investigates guide culture. Toward this end, I ask such questions as was there a "tour guide" in the Middle Ages, that is, is there evidence for an artistic component within medieval guide culture? If so, what was the precedent for this? What was its relation to artistic culture in general and pilgrimage culture in particular? Is there any evidence of guide support, such as guide training or guide aids? What can we say about the range of artistic culture addressed by medieval guides and, in this regard, what sort of information did they convey? Who were these guides and what social groups did they address? Did they act to maintain--consciously or unconsciously--the traditional social distance between the spiritual elite and the non-elite? And how does all this affect our conception of medieval artistic culture, broadly speaking? Medieval guide culture and its mediating dynamic, ephemeral by nature, have been largely overlooked. But at least something--even if little more than an awareness--of this culture may be recovered. The evidence suggests that it was an active factor in the transmission of particular categories of knowledge and claims, and strongly affected both the object-viewer dynamic and the social context of medieval public art. And in this, the guide, variously understood, was often the principal mediator between the ordinary visitor and the sometimes incredibly lavish and complex art programs--between the public and the public work of art--of the Middle Ages.

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4 Watch room (the wooden structure underneath the nave arch) overlooking the restored shrine of Saint Alban, late 14th century, Saint Albans Abbey (photograph © Adrian Fletcher, www.paradoxplace.con wax or some object such as a cross that had been in some kind of contact with the sacred goal), Instruction, a more formal or even planned type of interaction, was often extended to the public by the officials of the guide infrastructure of a given holy place. William Durandus wrote, “We fulfill this office [of doorkeeper, ostiarius] provided that...we instruct” people in the church.** Gregory of Tours noted that the guard (aedituus) of a certain church offered visitors a detailed history of the place, its relics, and its architecture. Elsewhere, he told how the guardians (custodibus) disseminated information about recent miracles that had occurred there. The Piacenza Pilgrim recorded how the nuns of a convent he visited in the Holy Land recounted miracles of a local saint to pilgrims.” Guillaume de Saint-Pair, a monk of Mont-Saint-Michel, wrote a vernacular history of the foundation of the monastery specifi- cally because so many visitors had asked about it and were given incorrect information.** And 5 Monk shrine keeper at the tomb of Edward the confessor, from the Life of Saint Edward the Confessor ca. 1255-60, parchment, page 11 x 7%, in. (27.9 x 19.3 cm). University Library, Cambridge, MS Ee.3.59, fol. 33r (artwork in the public domain; photograph © Cambridge University Library, published under a Creative Commons license BY-NC 3.0)

ecclesiastics in general read to the pilgrims and other visitors at the holy sites—typically, the vita of the saint at his or her resting place, but also biblical passages at their claimed sites in the Holy Land—another aspect of guide culture that was so pervasive it entered into pilgrimage visual culture (note the books in Figs. 2, 5, 6). 6 Monk shrine keeper at the tomb of Edward the Confessor, from the Life of Saint Edward the Confessor, ca. 1255-60, parchment, page 11 x 7°, in. (27.9 x 19.3 cm). University Library, Cambridge, MS Ee.3.59, fol. 30r (artwork in the public domain; photograph © Cambridge University Library, published under a Creative Commons license BY-NC 3.0) vita of the saint at his or her resting place, but also biblical passages at their claimed sites in the

7 Glastonbury Tabula, 14th century, parchment, approx. 36 x 18 in. (91.4 x 45.7 cm). Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, MS lat. hist. a.2 (artwork in the public domain; photograph provided by Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)

9 Donor of the church of Saint-Lazare, 1130-45, capital, former collegiate church of Saint-Lazare, Autun (artwork in the public domain; photograph © keepps) 10 Unidentified subject, ca. 1025-50, relief, Arch of Gerlannus, church of Saint-Philibert, Tournus (artwork in the public domain; photograph © TangoPaso)

12 Construction of the first church of Crowland, Guthlac Roll, 1210?, parchment, roll 9 ft. 444 x 6% in. (2.85 x .17 m), image approx. 6% x 6% in. (17 x 17 cm). British Library, London, MS Harley Roll Y.6, roundel 5 (artwork in the public domain; photograph ¢ British Library) The reading of saints’ vitae at their tombs was a common practice in the Middle

13 Canterbury Roll, early 14th century, parchment, 8 ft. 10 in. x 914 in. Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library, MS C 246 (artwork in the public domain; photograph provided by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral)

horse in the Last Judgment tympanum of the monastery, an image that is unique among Last Judgment scenes—make a generally similar mediating reference to the enemy of Conques?"* 14 The Journey to Emmaus, ca. 1130, cloister pier, Santo Domingo de Silos (artwork in the public domain; photograph © Jim Anzalone, published under a Creative Commons license BY-SA 2.0). The pilgrim’s staff carried by Christ is broken at the top and bottom. horse in the Last Judgment tympanum of the monastery, an image that is unique among Last

was made, stones that supported Moses’s arms during the battle with the Amalekites, different sites for the beheading of John the Baptist, a stone on which Christ sat when he preached, bread from the Last Supper—even the tomb of Moses, who is said in the Bible, no less, to have been buried in an unknown place."” The typically popular character of such assertions implies an origin in on-site guide practice, which then migrated to written guides through exposure of the authors of these written guides to the same on-site practice. These fabricated claims were no doubt often initiated by a perceived need by one site or guide to contend with other competing sites and guides, all seeking to attract and please the pilgrim audience—to capture market share, as it is sometimes put today. The artistic counterpart to this general practice was simply one facet of the larger phenomenon. Many of these fabricated claims that relate to art and architecture were noninterpretative, such as assertions of extraordinary autho ship of a particular work of art (miraculously provided, sculpted by Nicodemus, painted by the evangelist Luke, and so on), of the object’s miraculous powers (images curing supplicants, speaking to them, sweating), or of historically baseless site identifications (tombs of certain of the patriarchs, Christ’s “prison” in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre), most of the instances o this type of fabricated claim probably not being considered particularly inappropriate by the majority of the medieval public." AR ne cs eee x es ic cos ELE. Ce we eo OD Mee: ce eee eee Re ce: oe ee ee ew cee: ace ce cs FE =: ET 16 Man on a locust making an offering to a basilisk, ca. 1125-40, capital 74, Sainte-Madeleine, Vézelay, north aisle wall (artwork in the public domain; photograph by Editions Lin, Paris, 1938) 17 Half-naked woman holding a skull in her lap, ca. 1105-12, tympanum, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Puerta de las Platerfas (artwork in the public domain; photograph © Alma from gl, published under a Creative Commons license BY-SA 3.0)

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67. Th e best account of the Holy Circuit of which I am aware is postmedieval: Pietro Casola, Viaggio 93-105 [12], pp. 190-205.
68. On tabulae in general, see Jeanne Krochalis, " Magna Tabula : Th e Glastonbury Tablets," in Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition , ed. James P. Carley (Rochester, NY: Brewer, 2001), 435-567.
69. Examples of all these aspects of tabulae are given in J. A. Bennett, "A Glastonbury Relic," Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's Proceedings 34 (1888): 117-22; John Higgitt, "Epigraphic Lettering and Book Script in the British Isles," in Inschrift und Material, Inschrift und Buchschrift: Fachtagung für mittelalterliche und neuzeitliche Epigraphik Ingolstadt 1997 , ed. Walter Koch and Christine Steininger (Munich: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999), 137-49; and Krochalis, " Magna Tabula ." For other ways in which a historical account of a religious institution might integrate certain aspects of its building history and the miraculous, see Conrad Rudolph, "Building-Miracles as Artistic Justifi cation in the Early and Mid-Twelfth Century," in Radical Art History: Internationale Anthologie, Subject: O.K. Werckmeister , ed. Wolfgang Kersten (Zurich: Zip Verlag, 1997), 398-410.
70. Th e Glastonbury Tabula : Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, MS lat. hist. a.2; and the York Tabula : York Minster Library, MSS Add. 533, 534. On these, see Bennett, "A Glastonbury Relic"; J. S. Purvis, "Th e Tables of the York Vicars Choral," Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 41 (1966): 741-48; Higgitt, "Epigraphic Lettering," 148-49; and Krochalis, " Magna Tabula ."
71. Satirically, Erasmus, Peregrinatio , lines 274-76, 333-34, pp. 478 ("peruetustam ursi pellem tignis affi xam"), 479 ("tabulam authenticam").
72. Bennett, "A Glastonbury Relic," 119.
73. Frederick Harrison, Life in a Medieval College: Th e Story of the Vicars-Choral of York Minster (London: Murray, 1952), 65-67.
74. Bodleian, Oxford, MS Laud misc. 750. Krochalis, " Magna Tabula ," 437, suggests that it may have been used by guides.
75. Purvis, "Tables of the York Vicars Choral," 742.
76. Krochalis, " Magna Tabula ," passim, but esp. 441-42. 57. Bernard of Clairvaux, Apologia 29, p. 282. For an example of what I mean by "contemporary" with regard to artistic production, see Conrad Rudolph, Artistic Change at St-Denis: Abbot Suger's Program and the Early Twelfth-Century Controversy over Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).
77. Th e York Tabula makes such a reference to the activity of Charlemagne in the history of the cathedral; Purvis, "Tables of the York Vicars Choral," 745. Th e story of the acquisition of some of the great relics of Saint-Denis was interwoven with a legendary history of Charlemagne in Descriptio qualiter Karolus Magnus clavum et coro- nam Domini Constantinopoli aquisgrani detulerit , in Die Legende Karls des Grossen im XI. und XII. Jahrhundert , ed.
78. Gerhard Rauschen (Leipzig: Gesellschaft fü r rheinische Geschichtskunde, 1890), 103-25. See also Émile Mâle, Religious Art in France: Th e Twelfth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978), 306-7; Elizabeth A. R. Brown and Michael W. Cothren, "Th e Twelfth-Century Crusading Window of the Abbey of Saint-Denis," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 49 (1986): 1-40;
79. and Elisabeth A. R. Brown, "St.-Denis and the Turpin Legend," in Th e Codex Calixtinus and the Shrine of St James , ed. John Williams (Tübingen: G. Narr, 1992), 51-88. On the matriculariis clericis of Saint-Denis, see Suger, Ordinatio , in Oeuvres , trans. and ed. Françoise Gasparri (Paris: Belles Lettres, 1996-2001), 2:228-57, at 249; alter- natively, Ordinatio , in Abbot Suger: On the Abbey Church of St-Denis and Its Art Treasures , trans. and ed. Erwin Panofsky, 2nd ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), 122-37, at 132. For my rendering of matriculariis as "church wardens," contrary to Panofsky's translation, see J. F. Niermeyer, Mediae latinitatis lexicon minus (Leiden: Brill, 1984), " matricularius " no. 4, citing Suger, De admi- nistratione 7, for which see Suger, Oeuvres , 54-155, at 70.
80. For the Vézelay capital, see Kirk Ambrose, Th e Nave Sculpture of Vézelay: Th e Art of Monastic Viewing (Toronto: PIMS, 2006), 20-28, 113, illustrated as Capital 93. For general documentation of the Old and New Testament typologies at Canterbury, see Caviness, Windows of Christ Church , 77-156. On the integration of these into a his- tory of salvation, see Conrad Rudolph, "Th e Parabolic Discourse Window and the Canterbury Roll: Social Change and the Assertion of Elite Status at Canterbury Cathedral," Oxford Art Journal 38 (2015): 1-19, at 11-12. On the west right tympanum of Saint-Denis as integrated into a possible larger history of salvation, see Conrad Rudolph, "Inventing the Gothic Portal: Suger, Hugh of Saint Victor, and the Construction of a New Public Art at Saint-Denis," Art History 33 (2010): 568-95, at 589-90.
81. On the image from Autun, see Denis Grivot and George Zarnecki, Gislebertus, Sculptor of Autun (Paris: Orion, 1961), 67-68. On the image from Tournus, see Bernhard Rupprecht, Romanische Skulptur in Frankreich (Munich: Hirmer, 1984), cat. no. 3.
82. On the images of Suger, see Clark Maines, "Good Works, Social Ties, and the Hope for Salvation: Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis," in Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis: A Symposium , ed. Paula Lieber Gerson (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), 77-94.
83. Descriptio Lateranensis , passim; Descriptio Vaticanae , passim (chap. 46, 429-30, for the reference to guides). On these texts, see also Eivor Andersen Oftestad, "Th e House of God: Th e Translation of the Temple and the Interpretation of the Lateran in the Twelfth Century" (PhD diss., University of Oslo, 2010), passim, but esp. 61-67.
84. Cymiteria totius Romanae urbis , in Geyer et al., Itineraria , 299-300; and De locis sanctis martyrum quae sunt foris civitas Romae , in ibid., 315-21.
85. Eadwine Psalter, Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R.17.1, fols. 284v-285. On this, see Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova, Th e Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), cat. no. 25; R. Willis, "Th e Architectural History of the Conventual Buildings of the Monastery of Christ Church, Canterbury," Archaeologia Cantiana 7 (1868): 1-206, at 158-81; William Urry, "Canterbury, Kent, circa 1153 × 1161," in Local Maps and Plans from Medieval England , ed. R. A. Skelton and P. D. A. Harvey (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), 43-58; and Francis Woodman, "Th e Waterworks Drawings of the Eadwine Psalter," in Th e Eadwine Psalter: Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury , ed. Margaret Gibson et al. (London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1992), 168-77.
86. For codicological descriptions of the bifolium and its relation to the rest of the manuscript, see Nicholas Pickwoad, "Codicology and Palaeography," in Gibson et al., Eadwine Psalter , 4-24, at 4-12; and Peter Fergusson, Canterbury Cathedral Priory in the Age of Becket (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 26-32.
87. Pickwoad, "Codicology and Palaeography," 4-6; and Margaret Gibson, "Conclusions: Th e Eadwine Psalter in Context," in Gibson et al., Eadwine Psalter , 209-13, at 209. Fergusson, Canterbury Cathedral , 30-31, believes that the plan is part of the original Psalter and dates it to 1158.
88. Willis, "Architectural History . . . Canterbury," 5; Urry, "Canterbury, Kent," 50; and Fergusson, Canterbury Cathedral , 42-46.
89. For a depiction of the waterworks at Canterbury that falls below the artistic level of the plan in question, see the Eadwine Psalter, Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R.17.1, fol. 286; for a reproduction, see Fergusson, Canterbury Cathedral , fi g. 10 . See also Willis, "Architectural History . . . Canterbury," 158-81; and Woodman, "Th e Waterworks Drawings." 70. On the Plan of Saint Gall, see Walter Horn and Ernest Born, Th e Plan of St. Gall (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979). For further discussion of the Canterbury Plan and the Plan of Saint Gall, see Fergusson, Canterbury Cathedral , 31, 36, 75.
90. On the diff erent guesthouses for diff erent classes of visitors, see Fergusson, Canterbury Cathedral , 21.
91. Willis, "Architectural History . . . Canterbury," 126; noted by Fergusson, Canterbury Cathedral , 15.
92. For the inscriptions on the plan, see Urry, "Canterbury, Kent," 44-45.
93. For Prior Wibert's obituary, see Fergusson, Canterbury Cathedral , 152; for Cluny, see Peter Damian, De Gallica Petri Damiani profectione 13, in Scriptores 30.2 (Leipzig: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 1934), 1034-46, at 1043. 75. Gibson, "Conclusions," 211, 213; with reference to Montague Rhodes James, Th e Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), 51, no. 322. As to the book cupboard in the cloister in which it may have been kept, see Lanfranc, Constitutions 83-84, p. 114.
94. Lanfranc, Constitutions 90, pp. 130-32. I have retained much of the language of Knowles's translation, Th e Monastic Constitutions .
95. William Fitzstephen, Vita Th omae 155, p. 151; Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Th omas , line 6158, 1:346. Th e monk-guardians of the shrine of Th omas at Canterbury owned a copy of Guernes's Vie de Th omas : British Library, London, MS Add. 59616; see "Detailed record for Additional 59616," accessed November 24, 2016, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts /record.asp?MSID=8363&CollID=27&NStart=59616 .
96. J. Armitage Robinson, Two Glastonbury Legends: King Arthur and St Joseph of Arimathea (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1926), 42-44, 56-58, and, for a facsimile of this now-lost visual aid, pl. V. Erasmus, Peregrinatio , lines 239-40, p. 477, also records the use of a brass plaque at Our Lady of Walsingham that apparently acted as a visual aid. 80. Sylloge epigraphica Turonensis 1-16, 18-19, in Francis John Gilardi, "Th e Sylloge epigraphica Turonensis de S. Martino " (PhD diss., Catholic University of America, 1983), 203-15. For further discussion, see Raymond Van Dam, Saints and Th eir Miracles in Late Antique Gaul (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), 308-17. For an illustration of the inscription (no. 13) from the altar- tomb of Martin, see May Vieillard-Troiekouroff , Les monu- ments religieux de la Gaule d'après les oeuvres de Grégoire de Tours (Paris: H. Champion, 1976), fi g. 61.
97. For example, Gregory of Tours, Virtutibus Sancti Juliani 2.2, pp. 564-65; Sigoli, Viaggio 146-49, and pas- sim, pp. 242-43, and passim; Arwed Arnulf, Versus ad Picturas: Studien zur Titulusdichtung als Quellengattung der Kunstgeschichte von der Antike bis zum Hochmittelalter (Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1997);
98. Kendall, Allegory of the Church ; Krochalis, " Magna Tabula ," 435; and Debiais, Messages de pierre .
99. Th is is implied in Erasmus, Peregrinatio , lines 273-339, pp. 478-79.
100. British Library, London, MS Harley Roll Y.6; Nigel Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts [I] (London: Harvey Miller, 1982), cat. no. 22; and J. J. G. Alexander and Paul Binski, Th e Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400 (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1987), cat. no. 37.
101. Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum 9.50-52, in Historia Anglorum: Th e History of the English People , trans. and ed. Diana E. Greenway (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 686-94.
102. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, MS n. a. fr. 1098; reproduced in Henri Omont, Vie et histoire de Saint Denys (Paris: Berthaud Frè res, 1905). And see Gabrielle Spiegel, "Th e Cult of St. Denis and Capetian Kingship," Journal of Medieval History 1 (1975): 43-69, at 54, who feels that this manuscript was made for the instruction of visitors at Saint-Denis (further citing Léopold Delisle, who thought the same thing).
103. Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library, MS C 246. For more on this aspect of the Canterbury Roll, including bibliography, see Rudolph, "Parabolic Discourse Window and the Canterbury Roll."
104. I am currently working on a short study of guide train- ing, which I hope will come out soon.
105. Eadmer of Canterbury, Miracula Dunstani 4, in Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald , trans. and ed. Andrew J. Turner and Bernard J. Muir (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 160-211, at 162.
106. Conrad Rudolph, "Inventing the Exegetical Stained- Glass Window: Suger, Hugh, and a New Elite Art," Art Bulletin 93 (December 2011): 399-422.
107. Th e best-known impetus for this new attitude may be found in Bernard of Clairvaux, Apologia 28-29, pp. 278- 82; see also Rudolph, Th ings of Greater Importance , 104-24. And see the later treatise Pictor in carmine , in M. R. James, " Pictor in Carmine ," Archaeologia 94 (1951): 141-66, at 142.
108. Rudolph, "Inventing the Exegetical Stained-Glass Window," 402-6.
109. Suger, De administratione 2.12-13, in Oeuvres , 1:130-38, esp. 132-34; alternatively, De administratione 33, in Panofsky, Abbot Suger , 40-81, at 60-66, esp. 62; Rudolph, Th ings of Greater Importance , 104-24; and idem, Artistic Change at St-Denis , 60-63.
110. Brian Stock, Th e Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), 90-92, 522; idem, Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the Past (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), 22-24; and Rudolph, "Inventing the Exegetical Stained-Glass Window," 413-17.
111. Eudes de Châteauroux, Sermon 74, in Analecta novis- sima spicilegii Solesmensis: Altera continuatio , ed. J. B. Pitra ([Paris]: Typis Tusculanis, 1888), 2:270-73, at 270. I follow the translation in Wolfgang Kemp, Th e Narratives of Gothic Stained Glass (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 71-72.
112. Rudolph, "Parabolic Discourse Window and the Canterbury Roll," 8-9, 11-12, 19.
113. As used here, typological art is art that participates in the use of exegetical typologies. Exegesis, consisting of either three or four levels of interpretation, was the basic literary interpretative methodology in the Middle Ages. Hugh of Saint Victor expressed its three-level formula- tion in the following manner. History is the narration of events that are contained in the immediate meaning of the text. Allegory is the signifi cation through something said to have been done of something else done in the past, present, or future. Tropology is the signifi cation through something said to have been done of something else that ought to be done. Hugh of Saint Victor, De sacramentis Christianae fi dei 1, prol. 4, in PL , 176:cols. 183-618, at 184-85.
114. Pictor in carmine , p. 142.
115. For further discussion of this dynamic at Canterbury, see Rudolph, "Parabolic Discourse Window and the Canterbury Roll," 16-19.
116. De picturis et imaginibus, juxta altare Sanctae Crucis, in ecclesia monasterii Sancti Albani , in Annales monasterii S. Albani , ed. Henry Th omas Riley (London: Longmans, 1870), 1:418-30, at 419. Th ere were two Altars of the Cross at Saint Albans; this one was in the north transept;
117. Ridgway Lloyd, trans. and ed., An Account of the Altars, Monuments, and Tombs Existing A.D. 1428 in Saint Alban's Abbey (Saint Albans: Langley, 1873), 66.
118. For example, Egeria, Itinerarium 23.5, p. 66; and Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Th omas , line 6158, vol. 1:346. 101. See n. 84 above.
119. John of Salisbury, Vita Th omae 28, in Robinson, Materials , 2:299-322, at 322, following Matthew 11:5 and Luke 7:22. For more explicit comparisons between Becket and Christ by John of Salisbury, see Vita Th omae 17, 22, 23-26, in ibid., 2:312-13, 317, 318-21. Cf. Guernes de Pont- Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Th omas , lines 5885-90, 1:332-34, who also echoes the language of Matthew 11:5 and Luke 7:22, and, more explicitly, lines 5616-20, p. 320. Th is attitude is widespread in other passages from the vitae and books of miracles of Becket; for example, Benedict of Peterborough, Miracula Th omae 1.8, pp. 37-38;
120. William of Canterbury, Miracula Th omae 2.63, 2.91, in Robinson, Materials , 1:137-546, at 222, 251-52; Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Th omas , lines 5616-20, 1:320; Anonymous, Miracula Th omae 6.7, in Robinson, Materials , 2:261-81, at 279; William of Canterbury, Vita Th omae 2.41, in Robinson, Materials , 1:1-136, at 132;
121. Edward Grimm, Vita Th omae 84, in Robinson, Materials , 2:353-450, at 440; William Fitzstephen, Vita Th omae 154, pp. 150-51; and Herbert of Bosham, Vita Th omae 6.13, 6.15, in Robinson, Materials , 3:155-534, at 518, 522.
122. For example, the following windows in the Trinity Chapel ambulatory, Christ Church, Canterbury, all of whose narratives are related in the slightly earlier books of miracles of Becket: n. V 7 (paralytic), n. IV 28-29 (lame), n. III 42 (lame), n. III 40 (leper), n. III 23, 26, 28 (lame), n. II 69-71 (blind), n. II 57-59, 65-67 (leper), s. VI 14, 16 (dead raised), s. VI 11, 32 (dead raised), s. VII 36 (leprosy), s. VII 41 (lame);
123. for general documentation, see Caviness, Windows of Christ Church , 179, 182-83, 187, 188, 189, 193-94, 194-95, 206-8, 212.
124. See n. 102 above and Liturgical Offi ces , in Sherry Reames, trans. and ed., "Liturgical Offi ces for the Cult of St. Th omas Becket," in Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology , ed. Th omas Head (New York: Garland, 2000), 561-93, at 571, 584.
125. Trinity Chapel ambulatory and Corona, Christ Church, Canterbury, n. VII, n. VI, I. 4; for general documentation, see Caviness, Windows of Christ Church , 166, 175-77.
126. More broadly, see Herbert L. Kessler, Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God's Invisibility in Medieval Art (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), 179-86; and idem, Seeing Medieval Art (Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2004), 79-82.
127. Liber miraculorum Sancte Fidis 4.13 [4.12], Epilogus [4.24], app. II:3 [L.3], pp. 244, 269, 282. For a photograph of Bibliothèque de l'Abbaye, Conques, MS 1, see Pamela Sheingorn, Th e Book of Sainte Foy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), fi g. 1 .
128. Liber miraculorum Sancte Fidis 1.5, pp. 94-95. Louis Bousquet, Le Jugement dernier au tympan de l'église Sainte- Foy de Conques (Rodez: P. Carré re, 1948), 42-46, fi rst made this association. For the tympanum and a detail of the knight, see Georges Gaillard et al., Rouergue roman (La Pierre-qui-Vire: Zodiaque, 1963), fi gs. 9 -10 , 16 .
129. Veneranda dies , in Liber sancti Jacobi: Codex Calixtinus , ed. Walter Muir Whitehill (Santiago de Compostela: Seminario de Estudios Gallegos, 1944), 1:141-76, at 155.
130. Rupprecht, Romanische Skulptur , fi g. 103.
131. For example, Anonymous IV, Iter 15, in Sandoli, Itinera Hierosolymitana , 3:24-28, at 26; Anonymous V, De locis 2, 3, in ibid., 3: 30-43, at 30; Anonymous VII, Descriptio 2, in ibid., 3:78-83, at 78; Pilgrim's Guide 9, pp. 66-70; and Niccolò da Poggibonsi, Oltramare 16-30, pp. 44-51.
132. Liber miraculorum Sancte Fidis 1.16-17, pp. 116-18. I follow the translation in Sheingorn, Book of Sainte Foy , 81.
133. Erasmus, Peregrinatio , lines 742-47, p. 490. 114. Pilgrim's Guide 8, pp. 36-40.
134. Egeria, Itinerarium 8.1-2, p. 48, with reference to Exodus 1:11, 12:37.
135. For example, Egeria, Itinerarium 12.1-2, p. 52 (cf. Deuteronomy 34:5-6);
136. Piacenza Pilgrim, Itinerarium 40, p. 149; Mirabiliana , p. 52; Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio 8, 29 [4, 9], pp. 144, 200; and John Poloner, Descriptio , p. 263 (but see also pp. 273-74).
137. For example, Epiphanius the Monk, Th e Holy City and the Holy Places 3, trans. Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrims , 207-15, at 208; Anonymous IV, Iter 4, p. 24; Anonymous V, De locis 12, p. 32; Anonymous VI, De descripcione 2, 3, pp. 48, 54, 56; Mirabiliana , pp. 48, 49, 52, 54, 60, 61; William of Malmesbury, De antiquitate 26, in De antiqui- tate : Th e Early History of Glastonbury , trans. and ed. John Scott (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 1981), 78; Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Itinerarium 1.8, ed. Denys Pringle, "Wilbrand of Oldenburg's Journey to Syria, Lesser Armenia, Cyprus and the Holy Land (1211-12): A New Edition," Crusades 11 (2012): 109-37, at 120; Th omas of Burton, Chronica , Hugh 10, in Chronica monasterii de Melsa , ed. Edward Bond (London: Longmans, 1868), 3:35-36; and Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio 29 [9], p. 200 (Burchard is clearly amused rather than concerned by this claim).
138. Bernard of Clairvaux, Apologia 29, p. 282; see also Rudolph, Th ings of Greater Importance , 120-22, 334. 120. On the ambiguity of this capital, see Ambrose, Sculpture of Vézelay , 107-8.
139. For images, see Th orste Droste, Die Skulpturen von Moissac: Gestalt und Funktion romanischer Bauplastik (Munich: Hirmer, 1996), fi g. 60; Louis Grodecki, Les vitraux de Saint-Denis: Étude sur le vitrail au XII siècle (Paris: C.N.R.S., 1976), color pls. IV, XV. On the sensory saturation of the holy place, see Rudolph, Th ings of Greater Importance , 63-69.
140. Pilgrim's Guide 9, pp. 74-76. I myself was told this tale by a fi ngerless beggar at the portal in 1996; Conrad Rudolph, Pilgrimage to the End of the World: Th e Road to Santiago de Compostela (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 17. Most recently on this sculpture, see Claudia Rückert, "A Reconsideration of the Woman with the Skull on the Puerta de las Platerías of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral," Gesta 51 (2012): 129-46.
141. Lucian, Philopseudes 5, p. 326; I largely follow the translation in Casson, Travel in the Ancient World , 267. 124. Anonymous, Miracula Th omae 6.1, p. 261. Th e win- dow is in Trinity Chapel, ambulatory, s. VII, 12, 14, 19, 25, 29, 30. For general documentation, see Caviness, Windows of Christ Church , 213-14.
142. William of Malmesbury, Gesta 4.353, in Gesta Regum Anglorum: Th e History of the English Kings , trans. and ed.
143. R. A. B. Mynors et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 620. On curiosity, see for example Bernard of Clairvaux, Apologia 28-29, pp. 278-82; see also Rudolph, Th ings of Greater Importance , 104-24. For pilgrim interest in such subjects as fi gures from classical mythology and secular history, exotic animals and plants, and geologic marvels, see for example Bordeaux Pilgrim, Itinerarium (Wesseling 564, 572, 577, 578, 604), pp. 6, 9, 10, 22;
144. Hugeburc, Vita Willibaldi 4 [30], in Vita Willibaldi episcopi Eichstetensis , ed. Mario Iadanza (Florence: Galluzzo, 2011), 40;
145. Anonymous VI, De descripcione 2, 3, pp. 48, 54, 56; Th ietmar, Peregrinatio 8, in Mag. Th ietmari peregrinatio , ed. J. C. M. Laurent (Hamburg: T. G. Meissner, 1857), 21, 24; and Niccolò da Poggibonsi, Oltramare 181-84, 234, 246-50, pp. 118-19, 140, 145-46. More generally on curiosity and the pilgrimage, see Jean Leclercq, "Monachism et pérégri- nation du IXe au XIIe siècle," Studia Monastica 3 (1961): 33-52; Giles Constable, "Opposition to Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages," Studia Gratiana 19 (1976): 125-46; and idem, "Monachisme et pèlerinage au Moyen Âge," Revue Historique 258 (1977): 3-27.
146. Eadmer of Canterbury, Miracula Dunstani 10, p. 168. I am especially referring here to Peter Brown's concept of praesentia ; Brown, Th e Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 86-105.
147. Pietro Casola, Viaggio 14 [3], p. 92.
148. For a very telling exception to general Cistercian prac- tice, see Th omas of Burton, Chronica , Hugh 10, 3:35-36.
149. For an example of the application of the conclusions of this study to a major work of public art (with impor- tant implications for our understanding of the medieval sculpted portal), see Conrad Rudolph, "Macro/microcosm at Vézelay: Th e Narthex Portal and Non-Elite Participation in Elite Spirituality," to appear soon.