Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages / Nicole Chareyron ; translated by W. Donald Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chareyron, Nicole.

Standardized Title:

Pélerins de Jérusalem au Moyen âge. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--History.

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Jerusalem.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Every man who undertakes the journey to the Our Lord's Sepulcher needs three sacks: a sack of patience, a sack of silver, and a sack of faith."-Symon Semeonis, an Irish medieval pilgrim As medieval pilgrims made their way to the places where Jesus Christ lived and suffered, they experienced, among other things: holy sites, the majesty of the Egyptian pyramids (often referred to as the "Pharaoh's granaries"), dips in the Dead Sea, unfamiliar desert landscapes, the perils of traveling along the Nile, the customs of their Muslim hosts, Barbary pirates, lice, inconsiderate traveling companions, and a variety of difficulties, both great and small. In this richly detailed study, Nicole Chareyron draws on more than one hundred firsthand accounts to consider the journeys and worldviews of medieval pilgrims. Her work brings the reader into vivid, intimate contact with the pilgrims' thoughts and emotions as they made the frequently difficult pilgrimage to the Holy Land and back home again. Unlike the knights, princes, and soldiers of the Crusades, who traveled to the Holy Land for the purpose of reclaiming it for Christendom, these subsequent pilgrims of various nationalities, professions, and social classes were motivated by both religious piety and personal curiosity. The travelers not only wrote journals and memoirs for themselves but also to convey to others the majesty and strangeness of distant lands. In their accounts, the pilgrims relate their sense of astonishment, pity, admiration, and disappointment with humor and a touching sincerity and honesty.These writings also reveal the complex interactions between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Holy Land. Throughout their journey, pilgrims confronted occasionally hostile Muslim administrators (who controlled access to many holy sites), Bedouin tribes, Jews, and Turks. Chareyron considers the pilgrims' conflicted, frequently simplistic, views of their Muslim hosts and their social and religious practices.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD / Sigal, Pierre-André

PREFACE

Chronology And Maps

Chapter 1. Evagari et Discurrere per Mundum . . .

Chapter 2. All Roads Lead to Venice

Chapter 3. Venice in Splendid Dress

Chapter 4. Five Weeks in a Galley

Chapter 5. The Holy Lond of Promyssion

Chapter 6. Jerusalem and the Holy Places

Chapter 7. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher

Chapter 8. Pilgrimages and Excursions Round and About Jerusalem

Chapter 9. Saracens in the Towns, Arabs in the Desert, and Jews Here and There

Chapter 10. Desert Time, Desert Space

Chapter 11. Sinai and Its Speaking Stones

Chapter 12. Cairo, City of Lights

Chapter 13. Diamonds of the Sands, or Pharaoh's Granaries

Chapter 14. The Virgin's Garden, the Hermits' Desert, and Egyptian Dreams

Chapter 15. Alexandria, Sentry of the East

Chapter 16. Happy He Who, Like Ulysses . . .

Chapter 17. By Way of an Ending

Appendix. Pilgrims' Profiles

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-281) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786613791092

9781281782618

1281782610

9780231529617

0231529619

OCLC:

828795434