IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 613: Pleasurable Peregrinations: Re-Creations of the Holy Land in the Later Middle Ages
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | AHRC Network 'Remembered Places and Invented Traditions: Thinking about the Holy Land in the Late Medieval West', Birkbeck, University of London |
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| Organiser: | Marianne O'Doherty, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sarah Salih, Department of English Language & Literature, King's College London |
| Paper 613-a | Introduction: 'plusours gentz se delitent en oier parler de la dite seinte terre et en ount solaz' (Mandeville) (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 613-b | A Pleasurable Pilgrimage in Gerald of Wales's Itinerarium Kambriae (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - Latin, Lay Piety |
| Paper 613-c | The Pilgrim's Library: William Wey and Sir John Mandeville (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Emerging from the AHRC Network, 'Remembered Places, Invented Traditions: Thinking about the Holy Land in the Late Middle Ages', the papers in this session consider the dimensions of 'pleasure' in strikingly different re-creations of the Holy Land and/or pilgrimage experience. O'Doherty's paper will offer a brief contextual and conceptual introduction, and a consideration of pleasure as a concept that both links and distances past and present. Petrovskaia's paper discusses the pleasures of simulated pilgrimage in the 12th-century Welsh countryside. Bale's paper will consider William Wey's 15th-century itineraries in the light of his borrowing from Mandeville’s Book of Marvels and Travels, exploring the pleasures of reading, rather than travelling, as articulated by Wey. |