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Patterns of Pilgrimage in England c.1100-c.1500. Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature. In this Section: Introduction. 'Moral' Pilgrimage: The Daily Christian Life. Interior Pilgrimage: Anchorites, Mystics and the Monastic Orders. Place Pilgrimage. Saints in Medieval Society. Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature.
- England C.1100-C.1500
The medieval experience of pilgrimage in all its forms was...
- Moral Pilgrimage
Patterns of Pilgrimage in England c.1100-c.1500 'Moral'...
- Interior Pilgrimage: Anchorites, Mystics and The Monastic Orders
From the fourth century onwards Christians who left homes...
- Place Pilgrimage
In the centuries following the Norman Conquest, pilgrimage...
- Christian Pilgrimage Today
Christian pilgrimage today: continuity and change. Following...
- England C.1100-C.1500
Jul 29, 2018 · Some of the leading destinations for English pilgrims were Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela and Canterbury. Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The holy places in Palestine were the ultimate destination for medieval Christian pilgrims, although the journey could be arduous.
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It is the argument of Dee Dyas’s important book, Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700–1500 (2001), that the idea of ‘life-pilgrimage’ (that is, life conceived as a pilgrimage towards a heavenly destination) was embedded in the Bible and dominated the concept of pilgrimage in the early Christian centuries. She shows that what ...
Aug 20, 2015 · Medieval pilgrimage – detail of miniature showing the Lover, dressed as a pilgrim, setting off on his pilgrimage. British Library Egerton 1069 f. 145. People made pilgrimages for a variety of reasons. Many holy sites were purported to have a healing powers, such as Walsingham, in Norfolk. Pilgrims who had an ailing loved one could seek divine ...
Pilgrimage and Literary Tradition. collegesales@cambridge.org. In this original and wide-ranging book, Philip Edwards examines the theme of pilgrimage in the works of a variety of major writers, including Shakespeare, Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Yeats, and Heaney.
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This article describes how the work transformed itself from a typical account of Holy Land pilgrimage based upon William of Boldensele's Liber de quisbusdam ultramarines partibus and how populate its worlds with bodies in motion. Keywords: travel writing, pilgrimage, England, medieval period, The Book of John Mandeville, travel narrative ...
pilgrimage," the journey to a holy site which became, with the influence of pagan cults, a popular pursuit of tangible holiness. Part Two examines how the three notions of pilgrimage had become, in early medieval England, intertwined in Christian consciousness. In chapters on Old English prose works, place pilgrimage in the Anglo-Saxon church ...
