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Pilgrim & Preacher - The Audiences and Observant Spirituality of Friar Felix Fabri (1437/8-1502) (Hardcover)
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Pilgrim & Preacher - The Audiences and Observant Spirituality of Friar Felix Fabri (1437/8-1502) (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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Pilgrim and Preacher seeks to understand the numerous pilgrimage
writings of the Dominican Felix Fabri (1437/8-1502), not only as
rich descriptions of the Holy Land, Egypt, and Palestine, but also
as sources for the religious attitudes and social assumptions that
went into their creation. Fabri, an Observant reformer and talented
preacher, as well as a two-time Holy Land pilgrim, adapted his
pilgrimage experiences for four different audiences. He produced
the rhymed Swabian-German Pilgerbuchlein for those who sponsored
his first voyage; the encyclopaedic Latin Evagatorium for his
Dominican brethren; the vernacular Pilgerbuch for the noble patrons
of his second voyage and their households; and finally, the
vernacular Sionpilger-an 'imagined' or 'virtual' pilgrimage - for
the nuns in his care, who were unable to make the real journey
themselves. This study asks fundamental questions about the
readership for such works, and then builds upon an analysis of
Fabri's audiences to reassess the nature of piety, and the place
both pilgrimage literature and Observant reform had in it, in
late-medieval Germany. Pilgrim and Preacher is a study of
reception, yet one that departs from traditional approaches to
pilgrimage literature, which see pilgrimage writing merely as a
body of texts to be classified according to genre or mined for
colourful details about the Jerusalem journey. This work combines
the insights of both literary theory and historical studies with an
original, empirical contribution based on an analysis of the
manuscripts and printed history of Fabri's writings, setting them
in their historical and cultural contexts. Such an analysis allows
us to understand better the working of the religious imagination
amongst urban elites and women religious in the late middle ages.
By charting the influences of the Observance Movement within the
Dominican, Fabri's writings were intended for both his young
novices (to make them more effective preachers) and for the
religious women who could only go to Jerusalem via the imagination,
Pilgrim and Preacher also makes an important contribution to the
history of the Dominican Observance movement and the wider currents
that flowed between it and the civic and religious feelings of the
age.
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