Cover illustration: Moving viewers observing the pulpit and sarcophagus, nave, Sant’Ambrogio, Milan, pulpit c.1100; sarcophagus 4th c. Photo: Gillian Elliott.
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Names: Elliott, Gillian B., editor. | Heath, Anne (Anne Elizabeth), editor.
Title: Art, architecture, and the moving viewer, c. 300–1500 CE : unfolding narratives / edited by Gillian B. Elliott, Anne Heath.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] | Series: Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 2212–4187 ; volume 18 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021061760 (print) | LCCN 2021061761 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004506961 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004510555 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Architecture, Medieval. | Architecture—Human factors. | Space (Architecture)—Social aspects.
Classification: LCC NA350 .A78 2022 (print) | LCC NA350 (ebook) | DDC 723—dc23/eng/20220208
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