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By Diana Webb

Pilgrimage used to be an essential component of either medieval faith and medieval existence, and from its origins within the fourth-century Mediterranean global it unfold speedily to Northern Europe as a pan-European devotional phenomenon. focusing on the medieval Latin West, this booklet covers the interval spanning the expansion in pilgrimage through the 7th century to the Protestant Reformation within the 16-century, whilst pilgrimage ceased to be an essential component of ecu Christian tradition. It attracts commonly upon unique resource fabrics debts of pilgrimage, guidebooks, chronicles, wills, covert memos, and country files, thereby looking to discover the factors of the pilgrims themselves in addition to info of and attitudes in the direction of their arrangements, trips, shrines, and eventual locations (particularly Jerusalem, Compostela, and Rome).

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Development of Medieval European Pilgrimage · 45 (d) 1123, January 4th In the name of the Lord, I, Maienna, a woman, and my son Berengar, want to go to the Lord’s Sepulchre, and we are making a will of all that we possess, so that if we happen to die before we make another this shall have force. First, I Maienna leave my sheep in alms to San Cugat, so that if I do not return and my son does, he shall have half and the other half [will go] in alms, and if either of us does not return, those alms shall be given; and my own work, in wool or linen, may be sold to make cloths for the church of San Cugat.

Aremburgis, wife of the aforesaid Hubert, consented. [Vendôme, n. 221, p. ] (f ) 1075 May our successors as inhabitants of this place know that the knight Guicherius, when he held the honour of Châteaurenard, imposed a custom on the land of Holy Trinity at Pruneto, by force and unjustly, that every year the villeins of that land, like it or not, should render him a measure of oats. When he had been committing this rapine for some while, it happened that he decided to go to Rome on pilgrimage (causa orationis) and asked the monks of Vendôme to give him some assistance with his journey.

Borgo San Donnino [now Fidenza; ‘Sce Domnine’] 37. Firenzuola [Floricum] 38. Piacenza 39. Corte S. Andrea 40. S. Cristina 41. Pavia [Pamphica] 42. Tromello [Tremel] 43. Vercelli 44. Santhià [Sca Agatha] 45. Ivrea [Everi] 46. ␣ Aosta 48. St Rhémy 49. Bourg-St-Pierre [Petrecastel] 50. Orsières [Ursiores] 51. St Maurice 52. Aigde [Burbulei] 53. Vevey [Vivaec] 54. Lausanne 55. Orbe 56. Yverdun [Antifern] 57. Pontarlier [Punterlin] 58. Nods 59. Besançon [Bysiceon] 60. Cussey-sur-l’Oignon [Cuscei] 61.

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