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By Diana Webb

Pilgrimage used to be an essential component of either medieval faith and medieval existence, and from its origins within the fourth-century Mediterranean global it unfold swiftly to Northern Europe as a pan-European devotional phenomenon. focusing on the medieval Latin West, this publication covers the interval spanning the expansion in pilgrimage through the 7th century to the Protestant Reformation within the 16-century, whilst pilgrimage ceased to be an essential component of ecu Christian tradition. It attracts broadly upon unique resource fabrics bills of pilgrimage, guidebooks, chronicles, wills, covert memos, and kingdom files, thereby trying to discover the factors of the pilgrims themselves in addition to info of and attitudes in the direction of their arrangements, trips, shrines, and eventual locations (particularly Jerusalem, Compostela, and Rome).

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