Author

Publication

2007-04-10 - Hambledon & London

Language

English

Word Count

79,250 words, Guess

Page Count

317 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101852855290
  • ISBN-139781852855291
  • OCLC Control Number74969119
  • Better World Books9781852855291
  • Open LibraryOL9718049M

Classifications

  • LCCBV896
  • DDC263.042420902

Description

"The men and women who gathered at the Tabard Inn in Southwark in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are only the most famous of the tens of thousands of English pilgrims, from kings to peasants, who set off to the shrines of saints and the sites of miracles in the middle ages. As they travelled along well-established routes in the hope of a cure or a blessing, to fulfil a vow or to see new places, the pilgrims left records that let us see medieval people and their concerns and beliefs from a unique and intimate angle. As well as the most famous shrines, notably that of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury, Diana Webb also describes the many local pilgrimages and cults, and their rise and fall, over the English middle ages as a whole."--Jacket.

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Other Editions

  • Pilgrimage in Medieval EnglandPaperbackHambledon & London2007-04-10

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