Pilgrim Voices: Narrative and Authorship in Christian PilgrimageSimon Coleman, John Elsner Berghahn Books, 01.10.2002 - 200 Seiten Research on pilgrimage has traditionally fallen across a series of academic disciplines - anthropology, archaeology, art history, geography, history and theology. To date, relatively little work has been devoted to the issue of pilgrimage as writing and specifically as a form of travel-writing. The aim of the interdisciplinary essays gathered here is to examine the relations of Christian pilgrimage to the numerous narratives, which it generates and upon which it depends. Authors reveal not only the tensions between oral and written accounts but also the frequent ambiguities of journeys - the possibilities of shifts between secular and sacred forms and accounts of travel. Above all, the papers reveal the self-generating and multiple-authored characteristics of pilgrimage narrative: stories of past pilgrimage experience generate future stories and even future journeys. |
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... argued (1980: 23–5), in a point echoed by some of the contributors to this volume, medieval and earlier Christian pilgrims expressed a worry over the temptations of promoting the authorial and journeying self through warnings against ...
... argued elsewhere (Williams 2000: 205–10), it is their lack of novelty that assures their value to the pilgrim in so far as he proves to be part of a long and still living tradition. But in redescribing the pilgrim's stylistic poverty as ...
... argued, lose his way if he were not assisted by others. These others were not authors, nor yet amateur guides and travel writers, but professionals such as interpreters, priests and mystagogues authorised by the church. They alone were ...
... argued in the fourth century, and as Erasmus and other Reformers continued to argue throughout the sixteenth, the meanings attached to places of pilgrimage are founded, more often than not, on rumour, much of it the function of local ...
... argued that pilgrimage is, more often than not, politics, and that the devotional energies of believers are all too easily diverted, by professionals with other designs, to temporal and territorial ends. They had – and, as the ...
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Pilgrimage into Words and Images | 40 |
The Pilgrimage of Passion in Sidneys Arcadia | 61 |
Narratives of Transformation | 84 |
Bowing Down to Wood and Stone | 110 |
Postcards from the Edge of History | 133 |
Index | 158 |
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