Imagined Pilgrimage in the Itinerary Maps of Matthew Paris

Abstract

Matthew Paris's itinerary maps preface his Chronica majora and have been understood as illustrations for that history. I scrutinize the dynamic designs of one of these maps and argue for its appreciation as a meditational aid in imagined pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Cooperative, interactive strategies in the map encourage the monk to participate in its movements to the Holy City as a fulfillment of his desire to access that sacred site's theological meanings. I describe contexts by which its St. Albans audience learned and understood practices whose manipulations of time and place were similar to the map's dynamic presentation of geography.

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