Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Reader (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures) - Hardcover
Book 17 of 22: Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
Synopsis
The source documents in Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages illustrate the far-reaching significance and consequences of pilgrimage for medieval culture, society, economics, politics, and spirituality. The collection showcases the ways in which pilgrimages inspired and shaped the experiences of commoners and nobles, men and women, clergy and laity for over one thousand years. Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages focuses on sites within Europe and beyond its borders, including the holy places of Jerusalem. In addition, it includes documents that shed light upon Eastern Christian, Jewish, and Islamic pilgrimages. By revealing the changing face of pilgrimage over the years, the reader offers a window onto broader trends, shifts, and transformations in the Middle Ages.
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Review
"Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages", the sixteenth volume of the University of Toronto Press's "Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures" series, provides an impressively comprehensive collection of medieval pilgrimage narratives.--"Comitatus"
"Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages," the sixteenth volume of the University of Toronto Press's "Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures" series, provides an impressively comprehensive collection of medieval pilgrimage narratives. - "Comitatus"
Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages, the sixteenth volume of the University of Toronto Press's "Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures" series, provides an impressively comprehensive collection of medieval pilgrimage narratives. - Comitatus
Overall, the volume supplies an invaluable teaching tool which--like others in the series--is ample and diverse enough to be deployed effectively in many types of courses. Study questions after each selection primarily encourage close reading and a search within the texts for answers, with some opportunities for speculative imagination and comparisons of different sources. - The Medieval Review
About the Author
Brett Edward Whalen is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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