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Pilgrimage : the great adventure of the Middle Ages

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"Pilgrimage" looks at 500 years of Christian pilgrimage, during its heyday of 1066 to 1536, following the main pilgrimage routes to places such as Jerusalem and Rome, Canterbury and Santiago - places that remain a draw for pilgrims 500 years on.

In a narrative based on largely undocumented contemporary accounts, Ure brings to life not only a colourful cast of characters, from grandees and scholars seeking status and enlightenment to peasants hoping for escape and rogues doing penance, from the enterprising and the devout to the ambitious.

In the Middle Ages, pilgrimage was both the trip of a lifetime and the most hazardous life experience, risking piracy and robbery, highwaymen, slavery, Alpine blizzards and parched deserts, injury, death and disease, leaky transportation, bogus fellow pilgrims and unscrupulous innkeepers.

This book includes military expeditions, such as the Albigensian Crusade and the Pilgrimage of Grace; considers the literary and allegorical implications via John Bunyan and Sir John Mandeville.It ends with selection of pilgrim routes today, some accessible and popular, others as remote and haunting as they were in medieval times, proving that the spirit of medieval pilgrimage is still not far below the surface even a millennium later.

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Constable
1841197866 / 9781841197869
Hardback
23/02/2006
United Kingdom
English
x, 258 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.
24 cm
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