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Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1187-1291 (Paperback)
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Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1187-1291 (Paperback)
Series: Crusade Texts in Translation
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This book presents new translations of a selection of Latin and
French pilgrimage texts - and two in Greek - relating to Jerusalem
and the Holy Land between the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187
and the loss of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291. It therefore
complements and extends existing studies, which deal with the
period from Late Antiquity to Saladin's conquest. Such texts
provide a wealth of information not only about the business of
pilgrimage itself, but also on church history, topography,
architecture and the social and economic conditions prevailing in
Palestine in this period. Pilgrimage texts of the 13th century have
not previously been studied as a group in this way; and, because
the existing editions of them are scattered across a variety of
rather obscure publications, they tend to be under-utilized by
historians, despite their considerable interest. For instance, they
are often more original than the texts of the 12th century,
representing first-hand accounts of travellers rather than simple
reworkings of older texts. Taken together, they document the
changes that occurred in the pattern of pilgrimage after the fall
of Jerusalem in 1187, during its brief reoccupation by the Franks
between 1229 and 1244, and during the period from 1260 onwards when
the Mamluks gradually took military control of the whole country.
In the 1250s-60s, for example, because of the difficulties faced by
pilgrims in reaching Jerusalem itself, there developed an
alternative set of holy sites offering indulgences in Acre. The
bringing of Transjordan, southern Palestine and Sinai under Ayyubid
and, later, Mamluk control also encouraged the development of the
pilgrimage to St Catherine's monastery on Mount Sinai in this
period. The translations are accompanied by explanatory footnotes
and preceded by an introduction, which discusses the development of
Holy Land pilgrimage in this period and the context, dating and
composition of the texts themselves. The book concludes with a
comprehensive list of sources and a detailed index.
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