Description
Book SynopsisPilgrimage was an integral part not only of medieval religion but medieval life, and from its origins in the 4th-century Meditteranean world rapidly spread to northern Europe as a pan-European devotional phenomenon. Drawing upon original source materials, this text seeks to uncover the motives of pilgrims and the details of their preparation, maintenance, hazards on the route, and their ideas about pilgrimage sites - especially Jerusalem, Compostela and Rome - and gives an account of the multiplicity of interest which grew up around the many shrines along the way. The period covered is from about 1000 AD to 1500 AD - before the first crusade and the beginning of the great growth in pilgrimage in the Orthodox church, Byzantine of Russia. The bibliography includes printed sources and a listing of secondary works.
Table of ContentsPart 1 Pilgrimage down to the 12th century: the development of medieval European pilgrimage. Part 2 European pilgrimage c.110-c.1500: penitential pilgrimage, indulgences and jubilees, help and hazard -the pilgrim's experience; remembering pilgrimage - souvenirs; pilgrimage post mortem - wills; pilgrimage in one city - Pistoia. Part 3 Pilgrimage in one country - England: Englishmen abroad; pilgrimage in England; pilgrimage to and from Scotland; European visitors. Part 4 Verdicts on pilgrimage: criticism and evaluation of pilgrimage.
