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Colin Morris & Peter Roberts, eds.
Pilgrimage: The English Experience from Becket to Bunyan
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Cambridge University Press, 2002.
xvi,268pp.
Hardback ISBN 0521808111.

Publisher's recommended price £45.00

Pilgrimage was a central feature of medieval English life which affected history, politics, art and literature. The shrines were destroyed during the Reformation and pilgrimage stopped, yet the idea of pilgrimage continued - refashioned - in Protestant theology and in the exploration of the newly discovered world. By reaching beyond the Reformation to explore the transformation of the idea of the pilgrim in Protestant spirituality, this book confronts the religious experience of the English laity over half a millennium. The attractions for pilgrims of journeys to Jerusalem and to Canterbury and other English religious shrines are considered, while the political aspects of pilgrimage are discussed in relation to the architectural, documentary and pictorial evidence for the expression of lay piety in late medieval England. The cult of St Thomas of Canterbury is studied in particular detail, up to the suppression and in the revival of the cult in the sixteenth century.

Contents: Foreword Peter Roberts; Introduction Colin Morris; 1. The pilgrimages of the Angevin kings of England, 1154-1272 Nicholas Vincent; 2. The early imagery of Thomas Becket Richard Gameson; 3. Canterbury and the architecture of pilgrimage shrines in England Tim Tatton-Brown; 4. Curing bodies and healing souls: pilgrimage and the sick in medieval East Anglia Carole Rawcliffe; 5. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the late middle ages Colin Morris; 6. The dynamics of pilgrimage in late medieval England Eamon Duffy; 7. The pilgrimage of grace and the pilgrim tradition of the Holy War Michael Bush; 8. Politics, drama and the cult of Becket in the sixteenth century Peter Roberts; 9. 'To be a pilgrim': constructing the Protestant life in early modern England N. H. Keeble.



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