A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jotischky, Andrew.

Contributor:

Purkis, William J.

Series:

Arc Companions Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press, 2024.

Summary:

Pilgrimage to shrines and places of particular holiness was a feature of all three major religious traditions in medieval Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. Pilgrims exposed themselves to risk and loss in order to experience the spiritual benefits of devotion to the shrine of a saint or a holy place. This authoritative and comprehensive Companion offers a thematic approach to the experience of the medieval pilgrim, from departure to return. The central focus is on how pilgrims prepared for and negotiated their journeys; what they saw and did at shrines; and how they understood their journeys. The Holy Land stands at the centre of the book, because it was the main site of pilgrimage for Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrims, but pilgrimages to other sites across Europe and the Near East, and to the shrines of local saints, are also explored.

Contents:

COVER

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Jotischky - 1. Aspects of Spirituality in Medieval Christian Pilgrimage

Campopiano - 2. Writing Pilgrimage

Booth - 3. Pilgrimage and the Miraculous

Gaposchkin - 4. Pilgrimage and the Liturgy

Salonen - 5. Canon Law and the Pilgrim

Limor - 6. Women Pilgrims to the Holy Land

Freedman - 7. Moving Away from the "Historical" Benjamin of Tudela

Mylod - 8. Pilgrimage and the Extent of the Terra Sancta

Purkis - 9. Materializing Charlemagne's Iberian Crusade on the Pilgrim Road to Compostela

MacKenzie - 10. Lithic Holy Relics of Late Medieval Rome

Koopmans - 11. Canterbury in the Landscape of European Pilgrimage

Beebe - 13. Imagined Pilgrimage

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781802702774

1802702776

OCLC:

1465256653