The medieval author who sought to faithfully represent spiritual experience was aware that his task was hampered by the very medium in which he worked: language, like the world which it mediated, had been alienated from God through the Fall. As a solution to this problem, he sought to create a sacred space within his text where historical experience could intersect with a sacred intertext, thereby permitting the encounter with God, theosis. By elaborating such textual reliquaries, the author could then claim transcendent authority despite being forced to articulate those claims in fallen language. This dissertation studies these ideas as demonstrated in Augustine\u27s Confessions and two early medieval pilgrimage guides, the Itinerarium Ege...
This thesis explores the infrastructure and mechanics of Latin Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land...
This dissertation contributes to the growing literature on early modern popular religion and pilgrim...
Comprising forty-two selections from primary source materials, each translated with an introduction ...
This dissertation explores the different ways medieval authors conceived of anchoritism and solitary...
This thesis investigates two main topics: the medieval practice of imagined pilgrimage and a Middle ...
abstract: This dissertation concerns “revelations to others” in medieval hagiographical and visionar...
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version.Long regarded as a medi...
This thesis examines the function and transmission of late medieval visionary writings with devotion...
Why did people travel in Medieval Europe? They traveled as pilgrims for salvation. They traveled as ...
This dissertation analyses a collection of Lives (vitae) of lay saints from western Europe who were ...
Many have claimed religious travel (what is frequently called pilgrimage) as the basis for the devel...
Pilgrims are so frequently encountered in the pages of medieval literature that their presence (and ...
This thesis highlights the role of Carmelite friars in the composition and circulation of religious ...
The five texts contained in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114 (c. 1420-50) are seminal to under...
Why did people travel in Medieval Europe? They traveled as pilgrims for salvation. They traveled as ...
This thesis explores the infrastructure and mechanics of Latin Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land...
This dissertation contributes to the growing literature on early modern popular religion and pilgrim...
Comprising forty-two selections from primary source materials, each translated with an introduction ...
This dissertation explores the different ways medieval authors conceived of anchoritism and solitary...
This thesis investigates two main topics: the medieval practice of imagined pilgrimage and a Middle ...
abstract: This dissertation concerns “revelations to others” in medieval hagiographical and visionar...
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version.Long regarded as a medi...
This thesis examines the function and transmission of late medieval visionary writings with devotion...
Why did people travel in Medieval Europe? They traveled as pilgrims for salvation. They traveled as ...
This dissertation analyses a collection of Lives (vitae) of lay saints from western Europe who were ...
Many have claimed religious travel (what is frequently called pilgrimage) as the basis for the devel...
Pilgrims are so frequently encountered in the pages of medieval literature that their presence (and ...
This thesis highlights the role of Carmelite friars in the composition and circulation of religious ...
The five texts contained in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114 (c. 1420-50) are seminal to under...
Why did people travel in Medieval Europe? They traveled as pilgrims for salvation. They traveled as ...
This thesis explores the infrastructure and mechanics of Latin Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land...
This dissertation contributes to the growing literature on early modern popular religion and pilgrim...
Comprising forty-two selections from primary source materials, each translated with an introduction ...