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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... exercised in late classical and medieval periods were linked to the landscapes of the Holy Land in such a way as to lend sacral legitimacy to the apparatus of secular power, while rendering credible and 5 Simon Coleman and John Elsner.
... medieval Felix Fabri and Williams's account of early modern Frenchmen in Palestine, among the essays gathered here. The power of the pilgrimage narrative, and the perceived need for its control by institutions, can also produce tensions ...
... medieval author who draws on established and formulaic tradition in describing an apparently 'personal' pilgrimage is a discursive and cultural world away from a recent ethnographic account by Susan Harding of contemporary conservative ...
... to the twentieth than to the second century, although it is hardly unfamiliar in such repetitive pilgrims as the medieval Margery Kempe.4 Guizzelmi, the compiler of tales relating to St Mary 11 Simon Coleman and John Elsner.
... medieval and earlier Christian pilgrims expressed a worry over the temptations of promoting the authorial and journeying self through warnings against curiositas, a form of interest in one's secular surroundings that could lead one away ...
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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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