Pilgrimage: The English Experience from Becket to Bunyan

by Edited by Colin Morris , Peter Roberts

• ISBN13: 9780521808118
• ISBN10: 0521808111
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on contributors	x
Preface	xii
Acknowledgements	xiii
List of abbreviations	xv
Peter Roberts
Introduction	1	(11)
Colin Morris
The pilgrimages of the Angevin kings of England, 1154-1272	12	(34)
Nicholas Vincent
The early imagery of Thomas Becket	46	(44)
Richard Gameson
Canterbury and the architecture of pilgrimage shrines in England	90	(18)
Tim Tatton-Brown
Curing bodies and healing souls: pilgrimage and the sick in medieval East Anglia	108	(33)
Carole Rawcliffe
Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the late Middle Ages	141	(23)
Colin Morris
The dynamics of pilgrimage in late medieval England	164	(14)
Eamon Duffy
The Pilgrimage of Grace and the pilgrim tradition of holy war	178	(21)
Michael Bush
Politics, drama and the cult of Thomas Becket in the sixteenth century	199	(39)
Peter Roberts
`To be a pilgrim': constructing the Protestant life in the early modern England	238	(19)
N. H. Keeble
Index	257