Pilgrimage and Narrative in the French Renaissance: The Undiscovered Country

by Wes Williams

This is the first full-length study of the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. It makes new material available and also provides fresh perspectives on canonical writers such as Montaigne, Erasmus, Petrarch, Augustine, and Gregory of Nyssa. This wide-ranging and timely new work aims to question the ways in which recent theoretical and historical research in the area has determined the differences between fictional worlds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198159404
• ISBN13: 9780198159407
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"