Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades - Softcover

Wilkinson, John

9780856680786: Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856680788 ISBN 13: 9780856680786

Publisher: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1978

Hundreds of pilgrims set out form Europe to the Holy Land between 385 and 1099 AD, but of these only eighteen wrote descriptions which have survived. They provide essential background material for the history of Christianity in the Holy Land, as well as for all archaeologists and geographers of the Byzantine and Early Arab period. In this companion volume to Wilkinson's Egeria's Travels , these texts are translated and wherever possible related to archaeological work. With maps and indexes, the reader is provided with a vivid picture of the physical conditions of travel and the development of Christian prayer in the Holy Places. This second edition is updated and expanded.

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Review:

For those who have traveled to Jerusalem and the holy places this great labor of love will be a delight.' --The Bible Today

About the Author:

John Wilkinson first became acquainted with Jerusalem in 1961 when he went there as a tutor at St George's College. Since then he has lived there for seventeen years. He is an Anglican priest, and was a canon of St George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, and Director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. After writing Egeria's Travels Wilkinson went on to translate into English all the pilgrim texts in Latin and Greek till 1189, now collected together in Jerusalem Pilgrims and the Hakluyt Society's publication Jerusalem Pilgrims during the Crusades. He has now leaped ahead to 18th century Jerusalem, and with Mzia Ebanoidze has translated Timothy Gabashvill's pilgrimage.

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