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Pilgrimage to Images in the Fifteenth Century

Author: Robert Maniura

Published: 2004

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

The tradition of pilgrimage to an image is so well-established as to be taken for granted. Throughout Christian history large numbers of people have made journeys to images associated with miracles, yet the phenomenon has never been a subject of detailed scholarly scrutiny. This book explores the issue through a case study of the origins of pilgrimage to one such image, Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland. The shrine remains one of the most prominent pilgrimage destinations in the Catholic world: the striking focal panel painting shows the Virgin Mary with an apparently scarred face, and the legend of the picture's origin claims that it was painted by St Luke and desecrated by iconoclasts. The author assesses the significance of the stories attached to the shrine, and goes beyond them to consider the practices and responses of the pilgrims. Drawing on the earliest surviving miracle collections, he also explores the interaction between the pilgrims and the image of the 'scarred' Virgin.
ROBERT MANIURA is Lecturer in the History of Renaissance Art, Birkbeck College, University of London. hardback ISBN 978-1-843-83055-9

Price: £50.00

Pilgrimage to Rome in the Middle Ages

Author: Debra J. Birch

Published: 2000

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Debra Birch's lively account of pilgrimage to Rome throughout the medieval period is well-documented and clearly presented. HISTORY TODAY [Emma Mason]
Well researched, clearly written, and, quite apart from the eternal city, provides an excellent introduction to pilgrimage as a whole. CHURCH TIMES [Nicholas Orme]

Rome was one of the major pilgrim destinations in the middle ages. The belief that certain objects and places were a focus of holiness where pilgrims could come closer to God had a long history in Christian tradition; in the case of Rome, the tradition developed around two of the city's most important martyrs, Christ's apostles Peter and Paul. So strong were the city's associations with these apostles that pilgrimage to Rome was often referred to as pilgrimage `to the threshold of the apostles'. Debra Birch conveys a vivid picture of the world of the medieval pilgrim to Rome - the Romipetae/, or `Rome-seekers' - covering all aspects of their journey, and their life in the city itself.
DEBRA BIRCH is assistant secretary at the Institute of Historical Research.
CONTENTS The Cult of Saints and Pilgrimage to Rome; The Journey to Rome; Obligations and Privileges; Rome of the Pilgrim I; Rome of the Pilgrim II; Welfare Provisions for Pilgrims in Rome; The Popularity of Pilgrimage to Rome in the 12th Century; The 13th-Century Revival. paperback ISBN 978-0-851-15771-9

Price: £16.99

Pilgrimages

Author: Richard Barber

Published: 2006

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Pilgrimage, the journey to a distant sacred goal, is found in all the great religions of the world. It is a journey both outwards to hallowed places and inwards to spiritual improvement; it can express penance for past evils, or the search for future good; the pilgrim may pursue spiritual ecstasy in the sacred sites of a particular faith, or seek a miracle through the medium of god or saint. Throughout the world, pilgrims move invisibly in huge numbers among the tourists of today, indistinguishable from them except in purpose. In England each year 000 pilgrims make the journey to Canterbury cathedral and the shrine of Thomas Becket; the great festival at Prayaga on the Ganges attracts over fifteen million men and women. This is the first book to offer a survey of the great pilgrimage traditions. It outlines the history of different customs and brings together some of the common themes, revealing in the process surprising similarities in practice among pilgrims of widely differing beliefs and times.
RICHARD BARBER's interests range widely over the middle ages. He is the author of The Knight and Chivalry and the Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe;he has also written biographies of the Henry II and the Black Prince, and a history, The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses, as well as two classic Arthurian books, Arthurian Legends and King Arthur: Hero and Legend. Cover illustration: The scallop shell symbol of pilgrims to the shrine of St James at Santiago de Compostela. This scallop shell, still showing simple colouring, was found in the grave of a young man buried in Keynsham Abbey in the 12th century; the holes in the beak, for attaching the shell to the pilgrim's scrip, are clearly visible. paperback ISBN 978-0-851-15471-8

Price: £14.99

The Hospitallers and the Holy Land

Author: Judith Bronstein

Published: 2005

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

The Order of the Hospital of St John was among the most creative and important institutions of the Middle Ages, its history provoking much debate and controversy. However, there has been very little study of the way in which it operated as an organisation contributing to the survival of the Christian settlement in the East, a gap which this book addresses. hardback ISBN 978-1-843-83131-0

Price: £45.00

The Knights Hospitaller

Author: Helen Nicholson

Published: 2007

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

This short study of the history of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta, also known as the Knights Hospitaller, is intended as an introduction to the Order for academics working in other fields, as well as the interested general reader. hardback ISBN 978-1-843-83038-2

Price: £16.99

The Pilgrim City

Author: R.W. Dyson

Published: 2001

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

The political and social ideas of St Augustine of Hippo are of central importance to the historian of late classical and medieval political thought: Augustine offers a penetrating critique of the moral and political claims of imperial Rome, and he is one of the founders of the Christian political thought of the middle ages. But the student's task is made difficult by the fact that Augustine did not write a single, systematic political treatise. His political remarks are always incidental to his theological and pastoral concerns; they occur in many different contexts; they have to be dissected out from a great variety of works. In this volume, Dr Dyson brings together an extensive selection of primary sources and provides a detailed commentary on them. The result is a full and wide-ranging narrative account of St Augustine's thinking on the human condition, justice, the State, slavery, private property and war. This comprehensive sourcebook will be of value to students of St Augustine at all levels.
Dr R W DYSON lectures in the department of politics, University of Durham. hardback ISBN 978-0-851-15819-8

Price: £45.00

The Rule of the Templars

Author: J.M. Upton-Ward

Published: 2005

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

The Order of the Knights Templar, whose original purpose was to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land, was first given its own Rule in 1129, formalising the exceptional combination of soldier and monk. This translation of Henri de Curzon's 1886 edition of the French Rule is derived from the three extant medieval manuscripts. Both monastic rule and military manual, the Rule is a unique document and an important historical source. paperback ISBN 978-0-851-15701-6

Price: £16.99


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