A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage

Av Andrew Jotischky, William J. Purkis

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2024-10-31
Mått: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt: 658 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Arc Companions
Antal sidor: 328
Förlag: Arc Humanities Press
ISBN: 9781641891790

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Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway University of London. He has published extensively on monasticism, pilgrimage, and religious life in the Crusader States. His most recent book, co-authored with Bernard Hamilton, is Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States (2020).William J. Purkis is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham. He is a historian of crusading, pilgrimage, and monasticism, whose publications include Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, c. 1095–c. 1187 (2008).

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Whether traveling to Jerusalem, Rome, Saint James of Compostela, Canterbury, or a small shrine not far from home, the pilgrim remains an iconic figure of medieval Christian travel and devotion. Edited by Andrew Jotischky and William J. Purkis, A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage presents thirteen wide-ranging essays on various historical elements of--mostly--Christian pilgrimage during the Middle Ages. Overall, the essays in this volume are written in an accessible style for non-specialists, while offering original insights into the history of medieval pilgrimage that should be of interest to experts in the field.[...] A more apt title for this volume might have been A Companion to Christian Medieval Pilgrimage, since, with the exception of the essay on Benjamin of Tudela, all of the other essays deal with Christian travelers and devotional culture. Or the volume might have added essays on Islamic and Byzantine pilgrimages to accompany the contributions on western Christian and Jewish travelers, which would have made the volume a more comprehensive guide to medieval pilgrimage writ large. Still, this book on pilgrimage admirably captures the spirit of the Arc Humanities Press “Companions” series that also includes volumes on medieval crime, sexuality, translation, and queenship among other themes. Individual chapters could readily be assigned to students at both the undergraduate and graduate level, providing them with introductory guides to the subject matter and resources for further research projects. (Each essay comes with a helpful bibliography of primary and secondary sources.) If their goal was to spark further study of medieval pilgrimage among the next generation of scholars, the editors and contributors to this volume are to be especially commended on a job well done.

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