Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages

by Mary Boyle

An examination of four written accounts of medieval pilgrimages to Jerusalem.

What do the bursar of Eton College, a canon of Mainz Cathedral, a young knight from near Cologne, and a Kentish nobleman's chaplain have in common? Two Germans, residents of the Holy Roman Empire, and two Englishmen, just as the western horizons of the known world were beginning to expand. These four men - William Wey, Bernhard von Breydenbach, Arnold von Harff, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843845806
• ISBN13: 9781843845805
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"