Pilgrimage Explored
- Author / Editor
- Stopford, J[ennifer], ed.
Pilgrimage Explored
- Published
- Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y. : York Medieval Press, 1999.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 214 pp.; 42 b&w figs.; illus. and maps.
- Description
- Ten essays on aspects of the anthropology and archeology of medieval and pre-medieval pilgrimage. Related to Chaucer studies are Ben Nilson, "The Medieval Experience at the Shrine" (pp. 95-122), which uses "The Tale of Beryn" as a source; and A. M. Koldeweij, "Lifting the Veil on Pilgrim Badges" (pp. 161-88), on sacred and secular badges.
- Other essays discuss Christian and pre-Christian pilgrimage; Jacques de Vitry; pilgrimages to León, Santiago de Compostela, and Walsingham; and representations of Mt. Sinai.
- Contributor
- Nelson, Ben.
- Koldeweij, A. M.
- Alternative Title
- "The Medieval Experience at the Shrine."
- "Lifting the Veil on Pilgrim Badges."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.