عنوان

From the Fields to the City Gates

Number

LA41p985tw

Title Proper

From the Fields to the City Gates

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Locker, Martin

Text of Note

Experiencing Spatial Transition in Medieval Pilgrimage'He is by grace a pilgrim here below, by grace a citizen of there above.'Romans 9:21Evocative of cloak swaddled figures crossing windswept moorlands, mountain passes and barren deserts to fall prostrate before some bejewelled splendour in a foreign land, pilgrimage remains one of the most documented and well known phenomena of human history, particularly in Medieval Europe. It also offers an as yet poorly tapped well for research into Medieval sensory history. As an experience both accessible to all, although hyper-personal, and as a window into one of the deepest human yearnings (to access a touchstone with the divine), pilgrimage is a well from whose waters scholars are beginning to drink more deeply...

Date of Publication

2015

Title

UC Berkeley

Electronic name

[Article]

275578

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