- 200 pages
- English
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About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Pilgrim Voices: Authoring Christian Pilgrimage
- The Diplomat, the Trucheman and the Mystagogue
- Pilgrimage into Words and Images
- The Pilgrimage of Passion in Sidney's Arcadia
- Narratives of Transformation
- Bowing Down to Wood and Stone
- Postcards from the Edge of History
- Index