A documentary about the famous pilgrimage route from the Middle Ages
Walk this Way: Two Journeys to Jerusalem in the Fifteenth Century
November 7, 2015 By
This paper appraises place pilgrimage to Jerusalem in two late-medieval English texts: The Itineraries of William Wey and The Book of Margery Kempe.
Medieval Lisbon: Jerónimos Monastery
October 25, 2015 By
Of the four medieval #placestosee in Lisbon, Jerónimos Monastery, Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, was my favourite. The monastery is located in Belém, a suburb of Lisbon, that is famous for the 16th century monastery, as well as for its world famous pastry shop, Pastéis de Belém…
Medieval Pilgrimages: It’s All About the Journey
August 20, 2015 By
For medieval people, faith was more than just an abstract idea, it was tangible in the works they made to glorify God, and the relics they could see with their own eyes. An integral part of this tangible form of faith was the pilgrimage: a spiritual journey to visit a holy site.
Genoa: The cog in the new medieval economy
August 18, 2015 By
Journalist and author Nicholas Walton writes about medieval Genoa’s economy, trade and role in the Black Death. Walton recently published a book on Genoese history entitled, “Genoa: La Superba”
A Precious Ancient Souvenir Given to the First Pilgrim to Santiago de Compostela
June 28, 2015 By
All of us who have made pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwest Spain – three for me – are often reminded of their visits by the souvenirs they bring home.
‘Far is Rome from Lcohlong’: Gaels and Scandinavians on Pilgrimage and Crusade, c. 1000 – c. 1300
March 28, 2015 By
To what extent was the Mediterranean terra incognita to the inhabitants of the fringes of northwestern Europe – Gaels and Scandinavians – in the central Middle Ages?
‘Pilgrimage’, pilgrimage, and writing historical fiction
January 6, 2015 By
Dr. Pick discusses how she wrote and published a historical novel and the connection between academic writing and writing for a broader audience.
The Schola Saxonum and the Borgo in Rome
January 2, 2015 By
During the Anglo-Saxon era in England, there were many pilgrims to Rome. A community existed in Rome where these pilgrims would stay called the Schola Anglorum or Schola Saxonum.
Real and imaginary journeys in the later Middle Ages
September 1, 2014 By
For a proper understanding of the actions of men in the past it is necessary to have some idea of how they conceived the world and their place in it, yet for the medieval period there is a serious inbalance in the sources.
The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: the Albigensian Crusade and the Subjugation of the Languedoc
August 24, 2014 By
In March of 1208, Pope Innocent III preached the Albigensian Crusade. The crusade, which covered an area from Agen to Avignon and the Pyrenees to Cahors, initiated a new phase in the already strained relationship between the Catholic Church and the Languedoc.
The Knight, the Hermit, and the Pope: Some Problematic Narratives of Early Crusading Piety
August 23, 2014 By
A much more general question, one that extends beyond the geographic confines of the Limousin and the period between 27 December 1095 and 15 August 1096 is why an individual choose to confront any of these difficulties at all. Why did they go?
“Viking” Pilgrimage to the Holy Land fram! fram! cristmenn, crossmenn, konungsmenn! (Oláfs saga helga, ch. 224.)
August 8, 2014 By
The Viking predilection for travel and adventure made it easy for Christianized Scandinavians to adopt the idea of pilgrimage. It was, after all, not entirely unlike their own secular tradition of going a-viking.
CONFERENCES: Count Hugh of Troyes and the Crusading Nexus of Champagne
June 12, 2014 By
This is my summary of a paper given at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London.
Leiðarvísir: Its Genre and Sources, with Particular Reference to the Description of Rome
April 13, 2014 By
For the last two centuries, Leiðarvísir has been the subject of great interest by scholars from a variety of disciplines: not only Old Norse scholars, but also historians, geographers, toponymists and scholars of pilgrimage have studied and analysed this work.
Researchers trace medieval pilgrimage route in Scotland
April 9, 2014 By
A report released earlier this month has revealed the ways medieval pilgrims would travel to the one of Scotland’s most holiest sites.
Mass Pilgrimage and the Christological Context of the First Crusade
April 6, 2014 By
The importance of Jerusalem as a holy city for Christians serves as a starting point for understanding the motivations of eleventh-century pilgrims.
Saint Patrick’s Purgatory: a fresco in Todi, Italy
March 17, 2014 By
This essay deals with the tradition of the revelation of Purgatory to St. Patrick on Station Island in Lough Derg, whose popularity is testified not only in literary texts in the various languages of Medieval Europe but also in a unique work of art in the convent of the Sisters of Saint Clair at Todi, Umbria
Movement Through Stillness: Imagined Pilgrimage in Medieval Europe
March 16, 2014 By
This paper examines the phenomenon of ‘spiritual’ or ‘imagined’ pilgrimage in Medieval Europe.
The “Discrete Occupational Identity” of Chaucer’s Knyght
February 22, 2014 By
Popular critical opinion favors reading the pilgrim Knyght of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales as the representative of the idealized chivalric knight; however, the pilgrim Knyght bears the hallmark of the early professional soldier that began to evolve as early as the eleventh century.
Holy War and the home front : the crusading culture of Berry, France in the eleventh through thirteenth centuries
February 8, 2014 By
Le Berry, in the geographical centre of France, developed its own “crusading culture” that both affected the ideas of the people living there and effected new institutions and traditions in that society pertaining to the crusades.
Experience and Meaning in the Cathedral Labyrinth Pilgrimage
January 15, 2014 By
A medieval design based in Sacred Geometry principles, this unicursal path through concentric circles is a metaphorical container for spiritualjourneying.
Criminal Behaviour by Pilgrims in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
January 4, 2014 By
In the early and high Middle Ages, an introspective religiosity was predominant and supported by Benedictine and Cistercian monks; thus, pil- grimages to holy places were neither as popular nor practiced as they were in the period from the late Middle Ages onwards.
The First Jubilee
January 1, 2014 By
How did this tradition of Papal Jubilees start in the Middle Ages?
A Medieval Peace Movement
December 27, 2013 By
The Bianchi in 1399 – a medieval peace movement in Italy
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