Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage C 1100 1500

Author : Kathryn Hurlock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137430991

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Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500 by Kathryn Hurlock Pdf

Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500 examines one of the most popular expressions of religious belief in medieval Europe—from the promotion of particular sites for political, religious, and financial reasons to the experience of pilgrims and their impact on the Welsh landscape. Addressing a major gap in Welsh Studies, Kathryn Hurlock peels back the historical and religious layers of these holy pilgrimage sites to explore what motivated pilgrims to visit these particular sites, how family and locality drove the development of certain destinations, what pilgrims expected from their experience, how they engaged with pilgrimage in person or virtually, and what they saw, smelled, heard, and did when they reached their ultimate goal.

Author : Els Rose
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031485619

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City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500 by Els Rose Pdf

Author : Mary Boyle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843845805

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Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages by Mary Boyle Pdf

What do the bursar of Eton College, a canon of Mainz Cathedral, a young knight from near Cologne, and a Kentish nobleman's chaplain have in common? Two Germans, residents of the Holy Roman Empire, and two Englishmen, just as the western horizons of the known world were beginning to expand. These four men - William Wey, Bernhard von Breydenbach, Arnold von Harff, and Thomas Larke - are amongst the thousands of western Christians who undertook the arduous journey to the Holy Land in the decades immediately before the Reformation. More importantly, they are members of a much more select group: those who left written accounts of their travels, for the journey to Jerusalem in the late Middle Ages took place not only in the physical world, but also in the mind and on the page. Pilgrim authors contended in different ways with the collision between fifteenth-century reality and the static textual Jerusalem, as they encountered the genuinely multi-religious Middle East. This book examines the international literary phenomenon of the Jerusalem pilgrimage through the prism of these four writers. It explores the process of collective and individual identity construction, as pilgrims came into contact with members of other religious traditions in the course of the expression of their own; engages with the uneasy relationship between curiosity and pilgrimage; and investigates both the relevance of genre and the advent of print to the development of pilgrimage writing. Ultimately pilgrimage is revealed as a conceptual space with a near-liturgical status, unrestricted by geographical boundaries and accessible both literally and virtually.

Author : Mary Bateman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846581

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Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700 by Mary Bateman Pdf

The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Places have the power to suspend disbelief, even concerning unbelievable subjects. The many locations associated with King Arthur show this to be true, from Tintagel in Cornwall to Caerleon in Wales. But how and why did Arthurian sites come to proliferate across the English and Welsh landscape? What role did the medieval custodians of Arthurian abbeys, churches, cathedrals, and castles play in "placing" Arthur? How did visitors experience Arthur in situ, and how did their experiences permeate into wider Arthurian tradition? And why, in history and even today, have particular places proven so powerful in defending the impression of Arthur's reality? This book, the first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales, provides an answer to these questions. Beginning with an examination of on-site experiences of Arthur, at locations including Glastonbury, York, Dover, and Cirencester, it traces the impact that they had on visitors, among them John Hardyng, John Leland, William Camden, who subsequently used them as justification for the existence of Arthur in their writings. It shows how the local Arthur was manifested through textual and material culture: in chronicles, notebooks, and antiquarian works; in stained glass windows, earthworks, and display tablets. Via a careful piecing together of the evidence, the volume argues that a new history of Arthur begins to emerge: a local history.

Author : David Ceri Jones,Barry Lewis,Madeleine Gray,D. Densil Morgan
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786838223

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A History of Christianity in Wales by David Ceri Jones,Barry Lewis,Madeleine Gray,D. Densil Morgan Pdf

Christianity, in its Catholic, Protestant and Nonconformist forms, has played an enormous role in the history of Wales and in the defining and shaping of Welsh identity over the past two thousand years. Biblical place names, an urban and rural landscape littered with churches, chapels, crosses and sacred sites, a bardic and literary tradition deeply imbued with Christian themes in both the Welsh and English languages, and the songs sung by tens of thousands of rugby supporters at the national stadium in Cardiff, all hint at a Christian presence that was once universal. Yet for many in contemporary Wales, the story of the development of Christianity in their country remains little known. While the history of Christianity in Wales has been a subject of perennial interest for Welsh historians, much of their work has been highly specialised and not always accessible to a general audience. Standing on the shoulders of some of Wales’s finest historians, this is the first single-volume history of Welsh Christianity from its origins in Roman Britain to the present day. Drawing on the expertise of four leading historians of the Welsh Christian tradition, this volume is specifically designed for the general reader, and those beginning their exploration of Wales’s Christian past.

Author : Jane Cartwright
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Christian women martyrs
ISBN : 9781907322594

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Hystoria Gweryddon Yr Almaen by Jane Cartwright Pdf

Medieval Welsh literature is rich in hagiographical lore and numerous Welsh versions of the Lives of saints are extant, recording the legends of both native and universal saints. Although the cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 virgins is well known internationally, this is the first time that a scholarly edition of her Welsh legend has been published in its entirety. Hystoria Gweryddon yr Almaen was adapted into Welsh by Sir Huw Pennant and it survives in a unique manuscript – Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 182 (c. 1509–1514). The edition is accompanied by a full glossary, as well as detailed textual and linguistic notes, and information on the development and transmission of the legend. The peculiarities of the Welsh text are considered in the introduction as well as the similarities it shares with other versions. The volume also considers the wider cultural context of the legend and discusses the Welsh cult of St Ursula and her companions. Welsh tradition claims that Ursula was Welsh and she became associated with the church at Llangwyryfon in Ceredigion and other minor Welsh chapels.

Author : Michele Campopiano
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030527747

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Writing the Holy Land by Michele Campopiano Pdf

The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land. The experience of the late medieval Holy Land was deeply connected to the presence of the Franciscans of the Convent of Mount Zion in Jerusalem, who welcomed and guided pilgrims. This book analyses this construction of a shared memory based on the continuous availability of these texts in the Franciscan library of Mount Zion, where they were copied and adapted to respond to new historical contexts. This book shows how the Franciscans developed a representation of the Holy Land by elaborating on its history and describing its religious groups and the geography of the region. This representation circulated among pilgrims and influenced how contemporaries imagined the Holy Land

Author : Sara Elin Roberts
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781783277261

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The Growth of Law in Medieval Wales, C.1100-c.1500 by Sara Elin Roberts Pdf

A ground-breaking study of the lawbooks which were created in the changing social and political climate of post-conquest Wales.

Author : Diana Webb
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0333762592

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Medieval European Pilgrimage c.700-c.1500 by Diana Webb Pdf

Medieval pilgrimage was, above all, an expression of religious faith, but this was not its only aspect. Men and women of all classes went on pilgrimage for a variety of reasons, sometimes by choice, sometimes involuntarily. They made both long and short journeys: to Rome, Jerusalem and Santiago on the one hand; to innumerable local shrines on the other. The routes that they followed by land and water made up a complex web which covered the face of Europe, and their travels required a range of support services, including the protection of rulers (who were themselves often pilgrims). Pilgrimage left its mark not only on the landscape but also on the art and literature of Europe. Diana Webb's engaging book offers the reader a fresh introduction to the history of European Christian pilgrimage in the twelve hundred years between the conversion of Emperor Constantine and the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation. As well as exploring this multi-faceted activity, it considers both the geography of pilgrimage and its significant cultural legacy.

Author : Julia A Hickey
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781399064873

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The Kingmaker’s Women by Julia A Hickey Pdf

They were supposed to be pious, fruitful and submissive. The wealthiest women in the kingdom, Anne Beauchamp and her daughters were at the heart of bitter inheritance disputes. Well educated and extravagant, they lived in style and splendour but were forced to navigate their lives around the unpredictable clashes of the Cousins’ War. Were they pawns or did they exert an influence of their own? The twists and turns of Fate as well as the dynastic ambitions of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick saw Isabel married without royal permission to the Yorkist heir presumptive, George Duke of Clarence. Anne Neville was married to Edward of Lancaster, the only son of King Henry VI when her father turned his coat. One or the other was destined to become queen. Even so, the Countess of Warwick, heiress to one of the richest titles in England, could not avoid being declared legally dead so that her sons-in-law could take control of her titles and estates. Tragic Isabel, beloved by her husband, would experience the dangers of childbirth and on her death, her midwife was accused of witchcraft and murder. Her children both faced a traitor’s death because of their Plantagenet blood. Anne Neville became the wife of Richard, Duke of Gloucester having survived a forced march, widowhood and the ambitions of Isabel’s husband. When Gloucester took the throne as Richard III, she would become Shakespeare’s tragic queen. The women behind the myth suffered misfortune and loss but fulfilled their domestic duties in the brutal world they inhabited and fought by the means available to them for what they believed to be rightfully their own. The lives of Countess Anne and her daughters have much to say about marriage, childbirth and survival of aristocratic women in the fifteenth century.

Author : Rosamund Oates,Jessica G. Purdy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004470439

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Communities of Print by Rosamund Oates,Jessica G. Purdy Pdf

This book provides a new perspective on book history, with essays from leading scholars showing how communities of writers, publishers and readers across early modern Europe shaped the consumption of print.

Author : Diana Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857715661

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Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West by Diana Webb Pdf

Pilgrimage was an integral part not only of medieval religion but medieval life, and from its origins in the 4th-century Meditteranean world rapidly spread to northern Europe as a pan-European devotional phenomenon. Drawing upon original source materials, this text seeks to uncover the motives of pilgrims and the details of their preparation, maintenance, hazards on the route, and their ideas about pilgrimage sites - especially Jerusalem, Compostela and Rome - and gives an account of the multiplicity of interest which grew up around the many shrines along the way. The period covered is from about 1000 AD to 1500 AD - before the first crusade and the beginning of the great growth in pilgrimage in the Orthodox church, Byzantine of Russia. The bibliography includes printed sources and a listing of secondary works.

Author : Martin Locker
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784910778

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Landscapes of Pilgrimage in Medieval Britain by Martin Locker Pdf

This book seeks to address the journeying context of pilgrimage within the landscapes of Medieval Britain. Using four case studies, an interdisciplinary methodology developed by the author is applied to four different geographical and cultural areas of Britain to investigate the practicalities of travel along the Medieval road network.

Author : Dee Dyas
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859916235

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Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700-1500 by Dee Dyas Pdf

The meaning of pilgrimage and its development over 800 years, reflected in contemporary writings.

Author : Brett Edward Whalen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442601994

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Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages by Brett Edward Whalen Pdf

Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Reader is a rich collection of primary sources for the history of Christian pilgrimage in Europe and the Mediterranean world from the fourth through the sixteenth centuries.