Pilgrims and pilgrimage in the medieval West /
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 pi...
| Основен автор: | Webb, Diana, 1944- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York : New York :
I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
2001.
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| Серия: |
International library of historical studies ;
12. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=122105 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Pilgrims and pilgrimage in the medieval West. |
| Резюме: |
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 ab. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (viii, 290 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-282) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781435627888 1435627881 1860646492 9781860646492 9780857715661 0857715666 |