Pilgrimage in Medieval England - Hardcover

Webb, Diana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 185285250X ISBN 13: 9781852852504

Publisher: Hambledon & London, 2001

Synopsis

The men and women who gathered at the Tabard Inn in Southwark in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are only the most famous of the tens of thousands of English pilgrims, from kings to peasants, who set off to the shrines of saints and the sites of miracles in the middle ages. As they travelled along well-established routes in the hope of a cure or a blessing, to fulfil a vow or to see new places, the pilgrims left records that let us see medieval people and their concerns and beliefs from a unique and intimate angle. As well as the most famous shrines, notably that of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury, Diana Webb also describes the many local pilgrimages and cults, and their rise and fall, over the English middle ages as a whole.

‘Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, and palmeres for to seken straunge strondes.’ --Chaucer

About this title

About the Author:

Diana Webb is Lecturer in Medieval History at King’s College, London.

Review:

"Webb's scholarly achievement deserves high praise." --Christina Hardyment, Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Hambledon & London
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 185285250X
• ISBN 13: 9781852852504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256