Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation: Long-Distance Pilgrimage in Northwest Europe

by Elizabeth Caroline Tingle

Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation examines long-distance pilgrimages to ancient, international shrines in northwestern Europe in the two centuries after Luther. In this region in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, saints' cults and pilgrimage were frequently contested, more so than in the Mediterranean world. France, the Low Countries and the British Isles were places of disputation and hostility between Protestant and Catholic;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501518518
• ISBN13: 9781501518515
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"