Pilgrimage: The English Experience from Becket to Bunyan

ISBN-13: 9780521152969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str.

Colin Morris; Peter Roberts

Opis

Pilgrimage was a central feature of medieval English life which affected history, politics, art and literature. The shrines were destroyed during the Reformation and pilgrimage stopped, yet the idea of pilgrimage continued--refashioned - in Protestant theology. By reaching beyond the Reformation to explore the transformation of the idea of the pilgrim, this book confronts the religious experience of the English laity over half a millennium. In a series of ground-breaking studies the contributors challenge many orthodox assumptions about English pilgrims and their history.