IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 526: Crossing Borders in Medieval Times: Comparative Approaches to Pilgrimage Practices in the Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist Traditions
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Heonjoo Sohn, Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University Baik-yong Song, Department of History Education, Hannam University, South Korea |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Youn-Mi Kim, Department of History of Art, Ewha Womans University, Seoul |
| Paper 526-a | Crossing the Borders between the Invisible and Visible: Japanese Pilgrimage to Secret Buddhas and Saikoku junrei (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Art History - Sculpture, Religious Life |
| Paper 526-b | Christian Pilgrims to Jerusalem and Their Perception of Muslims in the Later Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Paper 526-c | Medieval Islamic Shrine Visitation Guide Books and Local Society in Samarqand and Bukhara (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Local History |
| Paper 526-d | Crossing Borders and Constructing Female Selves in The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Other, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | This panel explores various aspects of medieval pilgrimage practices in the Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist traditions, and the ways in which heterogeneous cultures encountered and individuals with different identities perceived each other during the pilgrimage. Through examinations of pilgrimage accounts written by Christians who contacted Muslims on their way to Jerusalem, Islamic guide books for visiting Mausoleums (Turbat/Mazār) in Samarkand and Bukhara, medieval records on Japanese pilgrimage to visit 'Secret Buddhas', and an imaginary medieval female pilgrim's journal in a short story by Virginia Woolf, the papers in the panel explore how medieval pilgrims had opportunities to cross borders of identity and place. |