... they contributed to the exchange and translation of knowledge and ideas. This special issue considers issues of reading and writing before, during, and after medieval pilgrimages, as well as the methodological and historical issues at stake for both pilgrim writers and modern scholars. In particular, the articles...

... women is most likely an effect of scholars’ present biases, both intellectual and sociocultural. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 medieval pilgrimage writing imagined pilgrimage historiography of enclosed religious women power and resistance theory Journal of Medieval and Early...

...” of pilgrim-authors — the full range of written and oral resources at their disposal in the complex processes of knowledge production in pilgrimage narrative. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 medieval pilgrimage writing Ludolf of Sudheim De itinere Terre Sancte mental library...

..., 1994), 501. 92 Turner and Turner, Image and Pilgrimage, 132; Pasulka, Heaven Can Wait, 61. medieval pilgrimage writing Saint Patrick’s Purgatory chansons de geste theology of purgatory embodied penance in the afterlife ...

.... Overall, this study reemphasizes the fact that without understanding social contexts we can never properly understand the intentions of pilgrim-authors. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 medieval pilgrimage writing Riccoldo of Monte Croce library of Santa Maria Novella monastery...

... combatants and participants in crusading efforts. Yet Saewulf helps us understand more than the resonant effects of crusading on the genre of pilrimage writing. There are culturally defined Yeager / Medieval Pilgrimage as Heterotopia 259 approaches to the sea to consider as well. Mid- century scholarship...

... of modern taxonomies for dealing with the messy materialities of medieval texts. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 medieval Holy Land pilgrimage manuscript analysis Jerusalem map geography and cosmology virtual pilgrimage Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 51:1, January...

... between Rome s pagan past and Chris- tian present are by no means unique, or even unusual within the corpus of pilgrimage writing about the city. Such a motivation is indeed discern- ible within the textual traditions of both the Mirabilia and the Historia, as well as many other late medieval and early...

.... [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 medieval and early modern relics miracle tales Passion devotion prosthetic body human agency In an article on medieval “things,” Kellie Robertson writes that relics are “the most written about of all medieval and early...

...: The Creation of a Chris- tian Landscape,” in Varieties of Religious Conversion in the Middle Ages, ed. James Muldoon (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997), 63. See also Mary Baine Campbell, “‘The Object of One’s Gaze’: Landscape, Writing, and Early Medieval Pilgrimage...

... histoire médiévale, vol. 44. Paris: CNRS éditions, 2018. 205 pp. eur 50.00. Hillman, Jennifer, and Elizabeth C. Tingle, eds. Soul Travel: Spiritual Jour- neys in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. vi, 282 pp., 7 figs. $82.95. Hurlock, Kathryn. Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c...

... to that of medieval incorrupt saints such as Cuthbert. Indeed, no body part is discursively set apart from the others: in describing pilgrimages to these new saints, Allen outlines that recusants regularly undertook pil- grimages to the places where the body parts of the martyrs were displayed: Marry...

... Writing in the Ninth Century: A Reminder for Post- colonial Thinking about the Nation,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 28 (1998): 611–37. I would like to thank the anonymous reader for this journal for encouraging me to elaborate this point further. 16 Mary Louise Pratt...

... of Anglo-Saxon England: “World exhi- 156 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 34.1 / 2004 bitions are places of pilgrimage to the commodity fetish.”25 As department stores and arcades proliferated, as an abundance of consumer goods became available in the nineteenth century, there arose...

... was capable of writing.11 In part two of The Pilgrim s Progress (1684), Bunyan moves sug- gestively beyond the polemical breaks and agonized repetitions of his own conversion narrative. The narrative premise of part two is that those whom Christian left behind will retrace the steps of his pilgrimage from...

...” and Medieval Travel Narratives (Cambridge, Mass.: Medieval Academy of America, 2001). 2 On pilgrimage and crusade writings, see, besides the works cited in the previous note, Jean Richard, Les récits de voyages et de pèlerinages (Turnhout: Brepols, 1981); and Donald R. Howard, Writers...

... York Throughout the several centuries comprising the “late medieval” and “early modern” periods, and across various genres of writing and areas of social performance, the commouns is invoked as the starting-point, or rationale, of proposed social actions. Never quite the entirety...

... may reach.  — George Daniel, “Upon the Frontispiece,” lines 7 – 16 Premodern devotional practices depended heavily on sacred objects. From relics to altarpieces, pilgrimage badges to cathedrals, the experience of medieval Christianity was shaped by the created environment.1 Objects provided...

...” approach is a special case), and their suspicion of the intentional fallacy, A. C. Spearing has suggested an approach that accounts for the author yet steers clear of an autobiographical reading. He introduces the category of “autography” as a kind of medieval self-writing in which the “I” functions “less...

... Publishing, 1999. xv, 224 pp.; 15 maps, 31 black-and-white illus., 6 color plates. $39.95. Powers-Beck, Jeffrey. Writing the Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue. Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univer- sity Press, 1998. xii, 279 pp.; 9 illus. $54.50. Rodis-Lewis, Geneviève...