Nicholas Orme

Medieval Pilgrimage: With a Survey of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Pilgrimage was popular throughout medieval England until it was suppressed at the Reformation. This book explains how it originated, what it involved, and what it meant to those who practised it. Normally it is imagined in terms of long journeys to famous places in England or Christendom. In fact most pilgrimages were short ones, made to hundreds of nearby shrines and images. This study breaks new ground by exploring the subject through these local journeys and reveals the places that most people visited for most of the time. It shows who went, where and why they went, and what they experienced when they got there. The general study is followed by a detailed survey of the whole of the West of England: from Bristol to the Scillies and back to east Dorset. It lists over 80 sites, ranging from great churches like the cathedrals at Bristol, Exeter, and Wells down to small rural chapels and holy wells. Many of these sites still exist, allowing the book to be used as a guide to places to visit, where one can get a sense of what it was like to be a medieval pilgrim. The book contains four maps and forty illustrations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Impress Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781911293361
• Artikelnr.: 53782937

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Orme is a leading historian of English religion, culture, and social history. His books include The English Hospital (1995), Medieval Children (2001), Medieval Schools (2007), The History of England's Cathedrals (2017), and several studies of religion in the West of England. He is emeritus professor of history at Exeter University, and an emeritus lay canon of Truro Cathedral.