A rich treasury of primary sources vividly bringing to life the background, practice, and significance of medieval pilgrimage. An invaluable resource for students and specialists alike. -- Dee Dyas, University of York Another indispensable book in an already very useful series from the University of Toronto Press. Brett Edward Whalen has selected a cogent and illuminating set of sources offering insights into pilgrimage as a metaphor, an idea, and a practice from the Patristic period to Martin Luther. Anyone who picks up this book will surely want to design a course around it. -- Claire Fanger, Rice University
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Origins of Christian Pilgrimage
1. Pausanias's Guide to Greece
2. Josephus on the Jewish Temple at Jerusalem
3. The Promised Land in Christian Scripture
4. Eusebius on the Constantinian Peace
5. The Discovery of the True Cross
6. Julian the Apostate and the Temple Mount
7. The Pilgrimage of Etheria
8. Jerome on the Pilgrimage of Paula
9. Jerome on the Cult of Saints
10. The Life of Melania the Younger
11. The Breviary of Jerusalem
12. Life as Pilgrimage: Augustine's Confessions
Chapter Two: Saints, Travelers, and Sacred Spaces in the Early
Medieval West
13. The Churches of Rome
14. Devotion in Italy: Paulinus of Nola's Letters
15. Gregory of Tours on Shrines and Miracles in Merovingian
Gaul
16. Pilgrims as Wanderers: The Voyage of Saint Brendan
17. Penance and Pilgrimage
18. Saint Boniface on Pilgrimage: Advice and Criticism
19. Charlemagne and the Churches of Rome
20. Regulating Pilgrimage in the Carolingian Empire
21. The Translation and Miracles of Saints Marcellinus and
Peter
22. Criticizing the Cult of Saints: Claudius of Turin's
Complaint
23. The "Saracen" Sack of Saint Peter's Basilica
Chapter Three: Jerusalem and the Holy Places under Islamic Rule
24. A Christian Reaction to the Islamic Capture of Jerusalem
25. The Night Journey of Muhammad
26. The Pilgrimage of Arculf
27. The Hodoeporicon of Saint Willibald
28. Charlemagne's Legendary Journey to the East
29. The Monk Bernard's Journey to Jerusalem
30. Mukaddasi's Description of Syria
31. Diary of a Journey through Syria and Palestine
Chapter Four: Pilgrimage Before and After the Millennium
32. Popular Devotion and the Peace of God
33. The Miracles of Saint Foy
34. A Penitent Pilgrim in Irons
35. The Destruction of the Holy Sepulcher
36. Millennial Devotion and Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
37. The Pilgrimage of Richard of Verdun
38. The German Pilgrimage of 1064-65
39. A Canterbury Monk at Constantinople
Chapter Five: Pilgrimage and Holy War
40. Peter the Hermit's Pilgrimage
41. The Conquest of Jerusalem in 1099
42. The Relics of Saint George at Anchin
43. Monastic Criticisms of Crusading and Pilgrimage
44. The Pilgrimages of Bohemond of Taranto
45. The Travels of Saewulf
46. Pilgrimage from Russia to the Holy Land
47. The Tomb of the Patriarchs
48. Richard of Cornwall's Crusade
Chapter Six: Pilgrimage and Medieval Society
49. Guibert of Nogent, On Saints and their Relics
50. Accommodating Pilgrims at the Church of St-Denis
51. Miracles at the Shrine of Thomas Becket
52. The Marvels of Rome
53. A Miracle of Mary Magdalene
54. The Pilgrim's Guide to St-James at Compostella
55. Liturgy for Pilgrims and Crusaders
56. Medieval Exempla and Pilgrimage
57. Jewish Host Desecration and Christian Veneration
Chapter Seven: Pilgrimage and the Wider World
58. Muhammad al-Idrisi's Description of Jerusalem
59. The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
60. Rabban Sauma's Journey from the East
61. Ibn Battuta on the Pilgrimage Sites of Mecca
62. The Pilgrimage of Mansa Musa
63. Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo at Constantinople
64. Pero Tafur at Jerusalem
Chapter Eight: Pilgrimage and Piety in the Late Middle Ages
65. The Jubilee Year of 1300
66. Pilgrimage and Satire: The Canterbury Tales
67. Margery Kempe's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
68. The Tribulations of Brother Felix
69. The Pilgrimage of Arnold von Harff
70. Thomas More on Saints, Shrines, and Pilgrims
71. Martin Luther on the Papacy and Pilgrimage
72. Mexico Meets Jerusalem: Motolinia's History of the Indians of
New Spain
Index of Topics
Sources
Brett Edward Whalen is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Harvard University Press, 2009).
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*
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