Pilgrimage: The Great Adventure of the Middle Ages
- ISBN-10
- 1841197866
- ISBN-13
- 9781841197869
- Series
- Pilgrimage
- Category
- Religion / Holidays / Christian
- Pages
- 258
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Constable
- Author
- John Ure
Description
Pilgrimage looks at 500 years of Christian pilgrimage, during its heyday of 1066 to 1536, following the main pilgrimage routes to places such as Jerusalem and Rome, Canterbury and Santiago - places that remain a draw for pilgrims 500 years on. In a narrative based on largely undocumented contemporary accounts, Ure brings to life not only a colourful cast of characters, from grandees and scholars seeking status and enlightenment to peasants hoping for escape and rogues doing penance, from the enterprising and the devout to the ambitious. In the Middle Ages, pilgrimage was both the trip of a lifetime and the most hazardous life experience, risking piracy and robbery, highwaymen, slavery, Alpine blizzards and parched deserts, injury, death and disease, leaky transportation, bogus fellow pilgrims and unscrupulous innkeepers.
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