A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-64189-179-0
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Arc Companions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jotischky, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jotischky, Andrew
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).