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'Scholarship on Literary Pilgrimage' and 'Theory and Pilgrimage'
Focus on literary theory and pilgrimage texts such as Chaucer and Langland. Theoretical approaches to medieval literary pilgrimage texts.
Susan Signe Morrison. 'Scholarship on Literary Pilgrimage', in The Brill Encyclopedia of Pilgrimage. Gen. Ed. Larissa Taylor. Leiden: Brill 2009: 670-1; 752-4.
Women and Pilgrimage
Explores aspects of gender and women with pilgrimage practice. Theoretical, art historical, literary, and historical aspects.
Susan Signe Morrison. 'Women and Pilgrimage', in Pilgrims and Pilgrimage. Journey, Spirituality & Daily Life Through the Centuries (digital resource). Dee Dyas, ed. Christianity & Culture, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 2006.
Parish Churches on Pilgrimage Routes: Images, History, Memory
Examination of images and their memory on pilgrimage routes with special focus on Walsingham.
Susan Signe Morrison. 'Parish Churches on Pilgrimage Routes: Images, History, Memory', The Story of the Parish Church in England (digital resource). Dee Dyas, ed. Christianity & Culture, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 2010.
Waste Space: Pilgrim Badges, Ophelia, and Walsingham Remembered
Explores the prehistory of Ophelia's reference to Walsingham and the sacred and profane aspects of her utterance. Pilgrimage badges are explored.
Susan Signe Morrison. 'Waste Space: Pilgrim Badges, Ophelia, and Walsingham Remembered', in Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity. Eds. Gary Waller and Dominic Janes. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2010: 49-66.
Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England: Private Piety as Public Performance
Examination of women pilgrims in late medieval England with focus on Walsingham, spatial theory, religious and secular texts, Margery Kempe, and approaches to women and pilgrimage.
Susan Signe Morrison. Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England: Private Piety as Public Performance. London: Routledge, 2000.
Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis
Religious pluralism; inter-faith; urban theology; pilgrimage as a metaphor; migration; Lourdes
Bone Idol? British Catholics and Devotion to St Thérèse of Lisieux
Therese of Lisieux; relics; reverse pilgrimage; Salford; saints
Canvassing the Faithful: Image, Agency and the Lived Religiosity of Devotion to the Divine Mercy
Divine Mercy devotion; Krakow; St Faustina