A guidebook for the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the late Middle Ages. A case for computer-aided textual criticism.

During the late Middle Ages thousands and thousands of pilgrims from all over Western Europe travelled to Jerusalem. Hundreds of accounts describing that journey have come down to us. If one now reads these reports one finds that a fresh and original piece of writing on that late mediaeval Jerusalem pilgrimage is a rare thing. No matter what language the texts are written in, constantly the same holy places are described in a set order and in very much the same words. ... Zie: Summary