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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... shrine's miraculous powers. Experience can therefore be turned into words for reasons that transcend the cultivation of individual spirituality; yet, it is equally important to state that words help frame experience. Once the ...
... shrine, acts as a gift, or performance of thanksgiving to the divine. Mitchell's Mormons give testimonies that are personal yet formulaic, reconstituting the convert's life in canonical language (cf. Stromberg 1993); and personal ...
... shrine are brushed aside in favour of his own perspectives. However, Beauvau is neither insouciant nor truly singular in his attitude: his anxiety revolves in part around his (in-)ability to take on the identity of another kind of ...
... shrine, and extended Latin transcription of the precise variations on the liturgy specific to each stopping place, each one preceded by 'it is customary to say [on a coustume de dire] what follows' (p. 71). Other vernacular French ...
... shrine in his journal: at each place at which the procession stopped, the company were given 'a devout exhortation' (1608: 163). Several pilgrims take pains, and pleasure, in relating these sermons in detail; some, such as Du Blioul ...
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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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