A medieval ritual for you to add to your bucket list — and the architecture and church furnishings that accommodated and inspired it.
Here and here are the images we’ll be looking at.
Readings:
- The Way (2013 film with Martin Sheen & Emilio Estevez; available for streaming from the Colgate library).
- “Pilgrimage routes and the cult of the relic,” on Smarthistory
- Gothic Architecture, an introduction, on Smarthistory
- Birth of the Gothic: Abbot Suger and the ambulatory at St. Denis, on Smarthistory
- Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres, on Smarthistory
