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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Diana Webb |
ISBN: | 185285250X 9781852852504 1852855290 9781852855291 |
OCLC Number: | 45339026 |
Description: | xvii, 317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Beginnings -- Saints and conquerors -- From Wultstan to Becket -- Saints, bishops and shrine promotion -- Images and indulgences -- Royal pilgrimage -- Unofficial pilgrimage -- The pilgrim's voice -- Pilgrims in a landscape -- Penitents and critics. |
Responsibility: | Diana Webb. |
Abstract:
The pilgrims of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" are merely the most famous of thousands of English pilgrims, from kings and peasants, who visited the shrines of saints and the sites of miracles in the Middle Ages. This work describes the ascendancy and decline of the famous and lesser-known shrines.
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