Overview

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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Author:   Andrew Jotischky (Professor of Medieval History, Royal Holloway University of London) ,  William J. Purkis (Professor of Medieval History, University of Birmingham)
Publisher:   Arc Humanities Press
Imprint:   Arc Humanities Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781641891790

ISBN 10:   1641891793
Pages:   293
Publication Date:   31 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Part 1. Paradigms and Sources Introduction, by Andrew Jotischky and William J. Purkis Chapter 1. Aspects of Spirituality in Medieval Christian Pilgrimage, by Andrew Jotischky Chapter 2. Writing Pilgrimage, by Michele Campopiano Chapter 3. Pilgrimage and the Miraculous, by Philip Booth Part 2. The Status of the Pilgrim Chapter 4. Pilgrimage and the Liturgy, by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin Chapter 5. Canon Law and the Pilgrim, by Kirsi Salonen Part 3. The Experience of Pilgrimage Chapter 6. Women Pilgrims to the Holy Land: From Egeria to Margery Kempe, by Ora Limor Chapter 7. Moving Away from the “Historical” Benjamin of Tudela, by Marci Freedman Chapter 8. Pilgrimage and the Extent of the Terra Sancta, by E. J. Mylod Chapter 9. Materializing Charlemagne’s Iberian Crusade on the Pilgrim Road to Compostela, by William J. Purkis Chapter 10. Lithic Holy Relics of Late Medieval Rome, by Grahame MacKenzie Chapter 11. Canterbury in the Landscape of European Pilgrimage, by Rachel Koopmans Part 4. Homecomings Chapter 12. Medieval Pilgrim Souvenirs, by Amy Jeffs and Gabriel Byng Chapter 13. Imagined Pilgrimage, by Kathryne Beebe Index 

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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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