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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 837: Pilgrimage Writing and Pilgrimage Practice in the Later Middle Ages

Tuesday 8 July 2014, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:Remembered Places & Invented Traditions Research Network
Organiser:Rob Lutton, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Moderator/Chair:Andrew T. Jotischky, Department of History, Lancaster University
Paper 837-aLate Medieval English Pilgrims at the Monastery of the Cross, Jerusalem: Textual and Cultural Encounters
(Language: English)
Anthony Bale, Department of English & Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 837-bEnglish Pilgrimage Writing at the End of the Middle Ages: Thomas Larke and Robert Langton
(Language: English)
Rob Lutton, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Printing History, Religious Life
Paper 837-cThe Influence of Miraculous Tradition on Pilgrimage Practice and Text: The Case of the Holy Land Pilgrimage of Thietmar, 1217
(Language: English)
Philip Booth, Department of History, Lancaster University
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life
Abstract

This session explores different aspects of late medieval pilgrimage writing and practice. The first paper investigates how English writers handled the cultural and religious contradictions of a popular pilgrimage site on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The second examines the influence of cross-order Observant Reform on 'virtual' pilgrimage devotions (and the texts accompanying them) in 15th- and 16th-century Germany and the Low Countries. The third investigates the writers and patrons of printed English pilgrimage guides in the early 16th century and the ways in which they adapted an established literary genre for a new type of market.