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The Itineraries of William Wey (Hardcover)
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The Itineraries of William Wey (Hardcover)
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William Wey, fifteenth-century Devon priest, Fellow of Exeter
College, Oxford, and Bursar of Eton College, made three pilgrimages
between 1456 and 1462 - to Compostella, Rome and the Holy Land.
Prompted by his friends to write an account of these pilgrimages,
he describes in vivid detail his travels through seas patrolled by
Turkish galleys across Europe which at that time was embroiled in
turmoil from local conflicts. The complete text of his narrative
has never before been translated into modern English. For students
of this period, which bridges the medieval and early modern worlds,
Wey's account adds a new dimension to the phenomenon of pilgrimage.
He himself is an attractive and intriguing person of many talents,
practical, adventurous and highly observant, and eminently
resourceful. While waiting for the pilgrim galley to sail to Jaffa,
for example, Wey spent over a month in Venice and gives a colourful
account of that city in its heyday. His biblical knowledge is
formidable and his use of sources exact and apposite. He provides
practical and homely advice on kit, conduct and currency. He also
includes comparative English, Latin, Greek and Hebrew vocabularies,
gazetteers of places, roads and distances, and two poems. Medieval
pilgrim accounts are relatively rare and The Itineraries provides a
fascinating insight into travel, religious faith and the topography
of fifteenth-century Europe and beyond.
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