CONGRESS CANCELED Experiencing Pilgrimage
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Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages connected continents, spurred conflicts, and bolstered economies, but it also served as a means for individual devotion and divine grace. Kathryn Blair Moore’s 2017 book The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land draws attention to the ways in which Christian architecture served as a signal for pilgrim devotion. This session seeks to further this conversation, considering medieval pilgrimage from the pilgrims’ own perspectives and exploring how the material details of their journeys shaped their spiritual experience. We invite papers on the material, spiritual, cultural, geographical, and other experiential aspects of medieval pilgrimage. Papers can discuss pilgrimage as a human experience across multiple faith traditions and geographical regions, and approaches from all disciplines are welcome, including history, literary studies, art history, and religious studies.
Joshua Parks
CONGRESS CANCELED Experiencing Pilgrimage
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Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages connected continents, spurred conflicts, and bolstered economies, but it also served as a means for individual devotion and divine grace. Kathryn Blair Moore’s 2017 book The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land draws attention to the ways in which Christian architecture served as a signal for pilgrim devotion. This session seeks to further this conversation, considering medieval pilgrimage from the pilgrims’ own perspectives and exploring how the material details of their journeys shaped their spiritual experience. We invite papers on the material, spiritual, cultural, geographical, and other experiential aspects of medieval pilgrimage. Papers can discuss pilgrimage as a human experience across multiple faith traditions and geographical regions, and approaches from all disciplines are welcome, including history, literary studies, art history, and religious studies.
Joshua Parks