The first seven pages of Matthew Paris's famous Chronica majora make up a kind of medieval road map, linking London through the major cities and towns of Europe with the great European centers of pilgrimage, Rome, and Jerusalem (Figs. 1-7). [1] These pages, written and illustrated about 1250 by Matthew Paris at the Benedictine abbey of St. Albans, England, strike the modern viewer as somehow familiar in their dynamic and participatory design. Turning the itinerary pages leads the viewer toward Jerusalem, and folding or unfolding the flaps that Matthew appended to the pages ...

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