Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages / / Nicole Chareyron.

"Every man who undertakes the journey to the Our Lord's Sepulcher needs three sacks: a sack of patience, a sack of silver, and a sack of faith."-Symon Semeonis, an Irish medieval pilgrim As medieval pilgrims made their way to the places where Jesus Christ lived and suffered, they expe...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2005]
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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • Chronology And Maps
  • Chapter 1. Evagari et Discurrere per Mundum . . .
  • Chapter 2. All Roads Lead to Venice
  • Chapter 3. Venice in Splendid Dress
  • Chapter 4. Five Weeks in a Galley
  • Chapter 5. The Holy Lond of Promyssion
  • Chapter 6. Jerusalem and the Holy Places
  • Chapter 7. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher
  • Chapter 8. Pilgrimages and Excursions Round and About Jerusalem
  • Chapter 9. Saracens in the Towns, Arabs in the Desert, and Jews Here and There
  • Chapter 10. Desert Time, Desert Space
  • Chapter 11. Sinai and Its Speaking Stones
  • Chapter 12. Cairo, City of Lights
  • Chapter 13. Diamonds of the Sands, or Pharaoh's Granaries
  • Chapter 14. The Virgin's Garden, the Hermits' Desert, and Egyptian Dreams
  • Chapter 15. Alexandria, Sentry of the East
  • Chapter 16. Happy He Who, Like Ulysses . . .
  • Chapter 17. By Way of an Ending
  • Appendix. Pilgrims' Profiles
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index