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A collection of essays on pilgrimage, a central feature of medieval and Renaissance English life.
List of 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.
About the author
Professor Colin Morris (b. 1928) was Professor of Medieval History, University of Southampton, 1969-1992. His many publications include The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250 (in the Oxford University Press 'History of the Christian Church' series). Dr Peter Roberts is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He has acted as co-editor for Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson (Cambridge, 1994), Christopher Marlowe and English Renaissance Culture (Scolar/Ashgate, 1996), and British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533-1707 (Cambridge, 1998).
Summary
Pilgrimage was a central feature of medieval English life which affected history, politics, art and literature. 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.
