Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage

Larissa Taylor, Ph.D. (1990) in History, Brown University, is Associate Professor of History at Colby College in Maine. She is the author of two books, Soldiers of Christ: Preaching in Late Medieval and Reformation France (1992), winner of the John Nicolas Brown Prize of the Mediaeval Academy of America, and Heresy and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Paris (1999), and editor of a Brill volume: Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Period (2001).

Six main thematic divisions:

1. Art and Architecture

2. Canon Law and theology

3. Christian writing & literature

4. Devotional practices

5. Economic aspects

6. Social aspects, with further divisions on the basis of chronology and regional variations



Architecture

Access to Shrines

Altarpieces

Ambulatories

Apses

Archivolted Portals

Bridges and Bridge Chapels

Byzantine Pilgrimage Architecture

Charlemagne in Architecture

Chartreuse de Champmol

Corona Chandeliers

Crypts

English Gothic Architecture

English Romanesque Architecture

French Gothic Architecture

French Romanesque Architecture

German Pilgrimage Architecture

Holy Land Gothic Architecture

Holy Land Romanesque Architecture

Holy Wells

Iconography of Decoration

Influence of Earlier Christian Architecture

Iron Grilles in Churches

Italian Gothic Architecture

Italian Romanesque Architecture

Lindisfarne

Lintel on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Mosaics

Painted Columns in the Church of the Nativity

Pavements, Labyrinths

Pilgrimage Churches

Retables and Altarpieces

Romanesque Church Plans

Sculptural Decoration

Silver Altar, Pistoia Cathedral

Spanish Gothic Architecture

Spanish Romanesque Architecture

Treasuries

Watching Chambers

Church Architecture

Aachen Cathedral

Abbey of Cluny

Basilica of Tours

Beverley Minster

Canterbury Cathedral

Chartres Cathedral

Church of Sainte-Foy, Conques

Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

Cologne Cathedral

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem

Ely Cathedral

Heiltumsschatz

Holy Blood of Wilsnack

Holy Chapel

Jerusalem Chapel, Bruges

Lincoln Cathedral

Notre Dame, Paris

Pisa Cathedral

Pistoia Churches

Santiago de Compostela

Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey

Scala Sancta

St Albans

St Elisabeth Church

St Etienne-des-Gres

St James in Architecture (Compostela)

St John Lateran

St Martial in Architecture

St Paul Outside the Walls

St Peter’s

St Sebaldus Church, Nuremberg

St Ursula, Cologne

Sta Maria Maggiore

Trier Cathedral

Vadstena Abbey

Wells

Cult and Devotion

Anthony of Padua

Belongings of Saints

Birgitta of Sweden

Bishops and Abbots, Shrines of

Bleeding Hosts

Bodily Relics

Canonization

Catherine of Alexandria

Child Saints

Confraternities

Consecration of Shrines

Contact Relics

Dreams and Visions of Saints

Edward the Confessor

Eucharist

Exhumation and Translation of Saints

Exposure of Relics

Francis of Assisi

Holy Blood

James the Greater

Lawrence

Louis IX

Magi

Malefica by Saints

Mark the Evangelist

Martin of Tours

Martin of Tours in Spain

Martyrs

Mary Magdalen

Mary’s Wedding Ring

Michael the Archangel

Miracles

Miracles as Propaganda

Patron Saints
Paul

Penance

Peripatetic Saints

Peter

Plague Saints

Processions of Relics

Relic Keepers

Relics

Relics of Christ’s Passion

Relics of the Christ Child

Relics of the Virgin Mary

Rosaries

Stephen

Textile Contact Relics

Theft and Sale of Relics

Thomas Becket, Worship of

Virgin Mary, Cult of

Cult Objects

Byzantine Ampullae

Crusader Kingdom Ampullae

Early Pilgrimage Woodblock Prints

English Illuminated Vitae

Essen Madonna

Iconography of Pilgrim Badges

Iconology of Materials

Indulgence Handbills

Legendary Presents of Charlemagne

Manuscript Illumination

Pilgrim Accessories

Pilgrim Badges

Shrines, Decoration, Textiles

Terracotta Sculptures

Votives

Wax Candles

Early Pilgrimage

Ampullae

Caravan

Cluniac Promotion of Pilgrimage

Empress Helena

Exile as Pilgrimage

Gift -giving and Charity

Guelph Treasure

Guidebooks

Holy Sepulchre, Architectural Copies of

Itinerarium of Egeria

Liturgy and Pilgrimage

Maps and Plans

Melania the Elder

Melania the Younger

Monastic Pilgrimage

Pagan Pilgrimage

Paulinus of Nola

Penitential Pilgrimage

Philip the Good

Pilgrimage to Holy People

Spiritual Pilgrimage

St Simeon Stylites the Elder

Travel

True Cross

Economy

Banditry

Donations and the Economics of Shrines

Fairs

Food

Horses and Donkeys

Inns

Lodging

Markets

Pilgrim Beggars

Pilgrim Galley

Piracy

Professional Pilgrims

Prostitution and Brothels

Shipping

Souvenirs

Trade and Pilgrimage

Urban Tourism

Wills of Pilgrims

Experiences

Barefootedness

Bent Coins

Burial ad Sanctos

Candles

Chains

Crutches

Ex Votos

Fasting

Gender Segregation

Interaction with Relics

Measurement

Music and Pilgrimage

Opposition to Pilgrimage

Palmer

Penitential Practices

Pilgrim Prayers

Processional Pilgrimage and Relics

Ritual Bathing

Silver Images

Tomb Dust

Touching of Relics

Vicarious Pilgrimage

Vigils

Weather

Islamic Pilgrimage

Great Mosque, Damascus

Hajj

Mamluk Pilgrimage (1250–1517)

Ziyara

Jewish Pilgrimage

Jewish Pilgrimage

Literature

Accounts of Art in Churches

Deguileville

Early Pilgrimage Itineraries (333–1099)

Egeria

English Literary Pilgrimage

Fabulous or Imaginative Pilgrimages

Felix Fabri

Gregory of Tours

Homo Viator

Irish Immrama

Jacques de Vitry

Late Medieval French Pilgrimage Narratives

Late Medieval German Pilgrimage Narratives

Literary Voice of the Pilgrim

Magi Narratives

Matthew Paris’s Maps

Medieval Pilgrimage Writing and its Manuscript Sources

Miles Christi

Narrative Accounts, Itineraries and Descriptions

Navigatio Sancti Brendani

Palestine Pilgrims’ Text Society

Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam

Petrarch’s Pilgrimage

Philippe de Mezieres

Pilgrimage as Metaphor

Pilgrimage in Medieval Drama

Pilgrimage of Charlemagne

Satiric or Parodic Views of Pilgrimage

Scandinavian Pilgrimage Narratives

Scholarship on Literary Pilgrimage

St Mary of Egypt

St Roch

Sym and his Bruder

Miracles

Blindness

Deafness

Death and Resurrection in Miracles

Fire

Freeing of Prisoners

Healing and Relapse

Illness Miracles

Lactation

Lameness

Leprosy

Madness

Miracles and Blasphemy

Miracles and Injury

Miracles of Healing

Miracles of Justice

Miracles of Pregnancy and Birth

Miracles of Protection

Miracles of Rescue

Rescue from Execution

Shipwreck

Reliquaries

Ambazac Chasse

Arca Santa

Bernward Paten

Body Part Shapes

Casket of Stephen

Casket of the True Cross

Caskets of John the Baptist and Pelagius

Chasses, Feretories, Bourses, Caskets, and Coffrets

Crosses and Cross Bases

Crusader Kingdom Reliquaries

Demetrios

Enger

Eucharistic Iconography

Felix

Hadelinus

Hagiography, Local History and Theology

Hubertus

Inscriptions

Irish Cult Objects

Isidore of Leon

Italian Reliquaries

Limoges Enamels

Lobed Phylacteries

Monstrances and Ostensoria

Pope Alexander

Reliquaries of Benedict, Scholastica and Maur

Reliquaries of Charlemagne

Reliquaries of St Stephen

Reliquaries of Thomas Becket

Reliquary of Elizabeth of Marburg

Reliquary of Pepin

Reliquary of St James

Reliquary of St Martial

Reliquary of St Ursula

Reliquary of the Virgin

Rheno- Mosan Art

Sacred Girdle of the Virgin

Sainte-Chasse

Salvation Th emes

St Aemilian

St Foy, Statue of

St Magdalen Altarpiece

St Maurice

Statues

Tower Reliquaries

Typology of Reliquaries

Vessels

Volto Santo

Sites

Aachen

Abbey of Saint-Denis

Anno, Shrine of

Assisi

Athos

Autun

Auxerre

Balkan Road Rock Paintings

Basilica of St John Lateran

Bruges

Burgos

Burgundian Pilgrimage

Celtic and Welsh Sites

Cluny

Compostela, Routes to

Conques

Constantinople

Czestochowa

Einsiedeln

Einsiedeln Abbey

English Sites

Finisterre

German Sites

Glastonbury

Iona

Iona Abbey

Irish Pilgrimage

Le Puy

Leon

Low Countries

Mecca

Medina

Monastery of Lindisfarne

Monte Gargano

Montecassino

Montserrat

Moroccan Sites

Mount Sinai

Nidaros

Pilgrimage Routes

Ravenna

Rocamadour

Rome

Rothenburg

Saint Maximin-la-Sainte- Baume

Scandinavian Sites

Shrine of the Three Kings, Cologne

Sicily and the South

Spanish Sites

St Alban, Shrine of

St Andrews

St David’s

St Giles

St James and Santiago de Compostela

St Patrick’s Purgatory

St Winifred’s Well

Thessalonika

Toulouse

Vadstena, Shrine of

Venice

Vezelay

Wayside Shrines

Wulfstan, Shrine of

York

Zaragoza

Society

Abandonment of Pilgrims

Barriers to Pilgrimage

Childbirth and Pilgrimage

Children and Pilgrims

Communitas and Pilgrimage

Contested Pilgrimage

Crowds of Pilgrims

False Pilgrims

Fertility

Hat

Hazards of Pilgrimage

Hospital of St John

Knighting of Pilgrims

Liminality

Margery Kempe

Menstruation and Pilgrimage

Motivations for Pilgrimage

Parish Clergy and Pilgrimage

Peregrini

Pilgrim Costume

Pilgrim Groups

Pilgrimage of Friars

Pilgrimage of Monks

Pilgrimage of Nobles

Pilgrimage of Nuns

Pilgrimage of Parents

Pilgrimage of Widows

Pilgrimage of Wives

Poor Pilgrims

Religious Pilgrimage

Return from Pilgrimage

Robe

Royal Pilgrims

Sandals

Scrip

Staff

Theory and Pilgrimage

War and Pilgrimage

Women Pilgrims

Women’s Hospital, Jerusalem

Theology

Canon Law Regarding Pilgrims

Certificate of Pilgrimage

Corpus Christi

Crusades

Crusading Orders

Indulgences

Papacy and Pilgrimage

Papal Penitentiary

Pardoner

Purgatory

Roman Jubilee

Sexuality and Pilgrimage

Vows