10% off all books and free delivery over £40
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West

View All Editions

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review

About

Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West Synopsis

Pilgrimage was an integral part not only of medieval religion but medieval life, and from its origins in the 4th-century Meditteranean world rapidly spread to northern Europe as a pan-European devotional phenomenon. Drawing upon original source materials, this text seeks to uncover the motives of pilgrims and the details of their preparation, maintenance, hazards on the route, and their ideas about pilgrimage sites - especially Jerusalem, Compostela and Rome - and gives an account of the multiplicity of interest which grew up around the many shrines along the way. The period covered is from about 1000 AD to 1500 AD - before the first crusade and the beginning of the great growth in pilgrimage in the Orthodox church, Byzantine of Russia. The bibliography includes printed sources and a listing of secondary works.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781860646492
Publication date: 16th February 2001
Author: Diana Webb
Publisher: I.B. Tauris an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 304 pages
Series: International Library of Historical Studies
Genres: Christianity
Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals
History of religion
Social and cultural history