I Went On A Real Medieval Pilgrimage

Описание: Pilgrimage was an important aspect of Medieval Christian culture. Not everyone went on one, but enough people did for it to be a significant phenomenon. But what was it like to go on a pilgrimage in the Middle Ages? Why did people chose to go, and how did they do it? I decided that the best way to get an idea of what it was like was to do one myself. So join me in this video as I journey from Paris to the shrine of Saint Martin at the popular medieval pilgrimage site of Tours and discuss the experience of the medieval pilgrim.

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Recommendations for further reading:
-Farmer, Sharon. Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours (Cornell University Press, 2019). [Open Access]
-Jotischky, Andrew, William J. Purkis, eds. A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage (ARC Humanities Press, 2024). [Open Access]
-Labande, Edmond René. Pauper et peregrinus: problèmes, comportements, et mentalités du pèlerin chrétien. Culture & société médiévales 3 (Brepols, 2004).
-Maurey, Yossi. Medieval Music, Legend, and the Cult of St. Martin: The Local Foundations of a Universal Saint (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
-Morrison, Tessa. "The Labyrinthine Path of Pilgrimage." Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture. 1, n.3 (2005): 1-8.
-Van Dam, Raymond. Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul (Princeton University Press, 1993).
-Webb, Diana. Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West. (I.B. Tauris 1999).
-Whalen, Brett Edward. Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Reader. (University of Toronto Press, 2011).



All images used in this video are either my own, in the public domain, under fair use, or under creative commons. No AI was used in the making of this video.
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Outro music: Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY-SA 4.0
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