Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages
Title | Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Boyle |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1843845806 |
What do the bursar of Eton College, a canon of Mainz Cathedral, a young knight from near Cologne, and a Kentish nobleman's chaplain have in common? Two Germans, residents of the Holy Roman Empire, and two Englishmen, just as the western horizons of the known world were beginning to expand. These four men - William Wey, Bernhard von Breydenbach, Arnold von Harff, and Thomas Larke - are amongst the thousands of western Christians who undertook the arduous journey to the Holy Land in the decades immediately before the Reformation. More importantly, they are members of a much more select group: those who left written accounts of their travels, for the journey to Jerusalem in the late Middle Ages took place not only in the physical world, but also in the mind and on the page. Pilgrim authors contended in different ways with the collision between fifteenth-century reality and the static textual Jerusalem, as they encountered the genuinely multi-religious Middle East. This book examines the international literary phenomenon of the Jerusalem pilgrimage through the prism of these four writers. It explores the process of collective and individual identity construction, as pilgrims came into contact with members of other religious traditions in the course of the expression of their own; engages with the uneasy relationship between curiosity and pilgrimage; and investigates both the relevance of genre and the advent of print to the development of pilgrimage writing. Ultimately pilgrimage is revealed as a conceptual space with a near-liturgical status, unrestricted by geographical boundaries and accessible both literally and virtually.
A Guidebook for the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages
Title | A Guidebook for the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Josephie Brefeld |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) |
ISBN |
Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages
Title | Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Chareyron |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2005-03-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231529619 |
"Every man who undertakes the journey to the Our Lord's Sepulcher needs three sacks: a sack of patience, a sack of silver, and a sack of faith."—Symon Semeonis, an Irish medieval pilgrim As medieval pilgrims made their way to the places where Jesus Christ lived and suffered, they experienced, among other things: holy sites, the majesty of the Egyptian pyramids (often referred to as the "Pharaoh's granaries"), dips in the Dead Sea, unfamiliar desert landscapes, the perils of traveling along the Nile, the customs of their Muslim hosts, Barbary pirates, lice, inconsiderate traveling companions, and a variety of difficulties, both great and small. In this richly detailed study, Nicole Chareyron draws on more than one hundred firsthand accounts to consider the journeys and worldviews of medieval pilgrims. Her work brings the reader into vivid, intimate contact with the pilgrims' thoughts and emotions as they made the frequently difficult pilgrimage to the Holy Land and back home again. Unlike the knights, princes, and soldiers of the Crusades, who traveled to the Holy Land for the purpose of reclaiming it for Christendom, these subsequent pilgrims of various nationalities, professions, and social classes were motivated by both religious piety and personal curiosity. The travelers not only wrote journals and memoirs for themselves but also to convey to others the majesty and strangeness of distant lands. In their accounts, the pilgrims relate their sense of astonishment, pity, admiration, and disappointment with humor and a touching sincerity and honesty. These writings also reveal the complex interactions between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Holy Land. Throughout their journey, pilgrims confronted occasionally hostile Muslim administrators (who controlled access to many holy sites), Bedouin tribes, Jews, and Turks. Chareyron considers the pilgrims' conflicted, frequently simplistic, views of their Muslim hosts and their social and religious practices.
A Guidebook for the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages : a Case for Computer-aided Textual Criticism
Title | A Guidebook for the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages : a Case for Computer-aided Textual Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Sophia Johanna Geertruida Brefeld |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Writers and Pilgrims
Title | Writers and Pilgrims PDF eBook |
Author | Donald R. Howard |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2022-05-13 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0520361075 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages
Title | Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Kay Davidson |
Publisher | Scholarly Title |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
A 200-page introduction to pilgrimage in the Middle Ages and its study, is followed by a thoroughly annotated bibliography of over 1000 primary and secondary, scholarly and popular, works on such aspects of the subject as the medieval concept of pilgrimage, specific sites, and its manifestation in literature, music, art, architecture, and political and religious history. Each topical section notes important primary sources and key scholarly works that provide an opening for research. Focuses on the period from the 4th century to the Renaissance, but also notes works describing pre-Christian and 20th-century pilgrimages. Includes an outline for beginning scholars. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A Guidebook for the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages
Title | A Guidebook for the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Josephie Brefeld |
Publisher | Uitgeverij Verloren |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) |
ISBN | 9789065502575 |