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Soul Travel - Spiritual Journeys in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New edition)
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Soul Travel - Spiritual Journeys in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New edition)
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This volume is an edited collection of original essays on spiritual
travel in medieval and early modern Europe. Pilgrimage was a
central feature of medieval and early modern Christianity. But holy
travel was not only a physical act, it was also an interior
disposition and a spiritual process. From at least the late Antique
period, the life of a Christian was understood allegorically as a
journey towards heaven. Also, many people could not travel:
enclosed orders of monks and nuns, men and women with
responsibilities tying them to localities, the sick and frail.
Virtual travel was instead their recourse to the sacred sites. Thus
spiritual pilgrimage, instead of or alongside physical pilgrimage,
became prominent in medieval Europe and survived the Reformation in
both Protestant and Catholic traditions. These essays show that
this experience took many forms: a lively imagining of a journey
with holy people or to holy places; an "out-of-body" experience
such as the revelations of St Bridget of Sweden; guided journeys;
meditations upon holy places such as Jerusalem; and travel in
reconstructed landscapes, from the Monti Sacri reconstitutions to
convent churches. The volume includes an historiographical
introduction by the editors and nine case studies of spiritual
journeys, drawn from across the late medieval and early modern
periods and from different regions of Europe.
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