Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- 1. Encountering a Dream-Vision: Visual and Verbal Glosses to Guillaume de Digulleville’s Pelerinage Jhesucrist / Robert L.A. Clark and Pamela Sheingorn -- 2. Dangerous Passages and Spiritual Redemption in the Hortus Deliciarum / Elizabeth Monroe -- 3. Turning the Pages: Marginal Narratives and Devotional Practice in Gothic Prayerbooks / Anne Rudloff Stanton -- 4. Exploring the Border: The Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal / Margaret Goehring -- 5. Building Meaning: The First Architectural Alphabet / Erika Boeckeler -- 6. Still Walking: Spiritual Pilgrimage, Early Dutch Painting and the Dynamics of Faith / Henry Luttikhuizen -- 7. Pilgrimage through the Pages: Pilgrims’ Badges in Late Medieval Devotional Manuscripts / Megan H. Foster-Campbell -- 8. Prayers and Promises: The Interactive Indulgence Print in the Later Middle Ages / Walter S. Gibson -- 9. Art and Advertising: Late Medieval Altarpieces in Germany / Amy M. Morris -- 10. Who Sees Christ? An Alabaster Panel of the Mass of St. Gregory / Susan Leibacher Ward -- 11. The Well of Moses and Roland Barthes’ ‘Punctum’ of Piety / Donna L. Sadler -- 12. Sin and Redemption in Late-Medieval Art and Theater: The Magdalen as Role Model in Hugo van der Goes’s Vienna Diptych / Mark Trowbridge -- 13. Communicating with the Host: Imagery and Eucharistic Contact in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy / Kristen Van Ausdall -- 14. Empathetic Images and Painted Dialogues: The Visual and Verbal Rhetoric of Royal Private Piety in Renaissance Spain / Juan Luis González García -- 15. The fairest of them all: Reflections on Some Fourteenth-Century Mirrors / Alexa Sand -- 16. Bones and Stones: Imaging Sacred Defense in Medieval Cologne / Scott B. Montgomery -- 17. The Middle of Diptychs / Alfred Acres -- Bibliography to Volume 1 -- Index to Volume 1 -- Preliminary Material -- 1. Hugging the Saint: Improvising Ritual on the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela / Kathleen Ashley -- 2. Votives, Images, Interaction and Pilgrimage to the Tomb and Shrine of St. Thomas Becket, Canterbury Cathedral / Sarah Blick -- 3. Cradling Power: Female Devotions and Early Netherlandish Jésueaux / Annette LeZotte -- 4. Illusionism and Interactivity: Medieval Installation Art, Architecture and Devotional Response / Laura D. Gelfand -- 5. Consorting with Stone: The Figure of the Speaking and Moving Statue in Early Modern Italian Writing / Lex Hermans -- 6. Images, Efficacy and Ritual in the Renaissance: Burning the Devil and Dusting the Madonna / Fredrika H. Jacobs -- 7. Everybody’s Darling. Transformation of Value and Transformation of Meaning in the Veneration of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia / Viola Belghaus -- 8. The Pilgrim’s Progress: Devotional Journey through the Holy Womb / Elina Gertsman -- 9. Memento Mori: The Deadly Art of Interaction / Suzanne Karr Schmidt -- 10. Preparing the Mind. Preparing the Soul. The Fusion of Franciscan Thought into the Daily Lives of Friars in the Sacristy Decoration of Santa Croce, Florence / Michelle A. Erhardt -- 11. Parallelism in Giotto’s Santa Croce Frescoes / Jane C. Long -- 12. The Guiding Illusions of the Morrison Triptych / Mark Tucker and Lloyd DeWitt.

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Late Medieval and Renaissance art was surprisingly pushy; its architecture demanded that people move through it in prescribed patterns, its sculptures played elaborate games alternating between concealment and revelation, while its paintings charged viewers with imaginatively moving through them. Viewers wanted to interact with artwork in emotional and/or performative ways. This inventive and personal interface between viewers and artists sometimes conflicted with the Church’s prescribed devotional models, and in some cases it complemented them. Artists and patrons responded to the desire for both spontaneous and sanctioned interactions by creating original ways to amplify devotional experiences. The authors included here study the provocation and the reactions associated with medieval and Renaissance art and architecture. These essays trace the impetus towards interactivity from the points of view of their creators and those who used them. Contributors include: Mickey Abel, Alfred Acres, Kathleen Ashley, Viola Belghaus, Sarah Blick, Erika Boeckeler, Robert L.A. Clark, Lloyd DeWitt, Michelle Erhardt, Megan H. Foster-Campbell, Juan Luis González García, Laura D. Gelfand, Elina Gertsman, Walter S. Gibson, Margaret Goehring, Lex Hermans, Fredrika Jacobs, Annette LeZotte, Jane C. Long, Henry Luttikhuizen, Elizabeth Monroe, Scott B. Montgomery, Amy M. Morris, Vibeke Olson, Katherine Poole, Alexa Sand, Donna L. Sadler, Pamela Sheingorn, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Anne Rudloff Stanton, Janet Snyder, Rita Tekippe, Mark Trowbridge, Mark S. Tucker, Kristen Van Ausdall, Susan Ward.