A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage

Andrew Jotischky, William J. Purkis

• Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781802702774
• Subtopic: History of Christianity
• Index: History

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.

Table of 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
• Beebe – 13. Imagined Pilgrimage
• Index