Jerusalem: Essays on Pilgrimage and Literature

Author / Editor
Holloway, Julia Bolton.

Title
Jerusalem: Essays on Pilgrimage and Literature

Published
New York: AMS Press, 1998.

Physical Description
[iv], 277 pp.; 11 b&w illus.

Description
Ten essays and a personal testimony by the author on the interrelated topics of pilgrimage and exile in works from Homer and Plato to James Joyce. Focuses on the Middle Ages, with essays on female saints and mystics, "Song of Roland," Dante, Langland, and Chaucer. For a newly published essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Jerusalem: Essays on Pilgrimage and Literature under Alternative Title.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.