Literature
Institute for Pilgrimage Studies (College of William & Mary)
The Institute for Pilgrimage Studies at the College of William & Mary in Virginia was created to facilitate the study of pilgrimage through two primary mechanisms.
First, the Institute provides support for the international Consortium on Pilgrimage studies. The Institute supports the Consortium by:
Lamentation Motifs in Latin Hagiography
Examines the tradition of female affective piety at saints' shrines in the Christian West and its representation in literature.
Pilgrims and Pilgrimage
Sums up basic aspects of women and pilgrimage for this encyclopedia on women and gender.
Pilgrimage, Gender, and Theory. Where are the Women Pilgrimage Poets of the Fourteenth Century?
Asks why Christine de Pizan did not write a pilgrimage narrative despite its being the prevalent form for writers in the 14th century. Compares de Pizan with Margery Kempe.
'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.
Women and Pilgrimage
Explores aspects of gender and women with pilgrimage practice. Theoretical, art historical, literary, and historical aspects.
Parish Churches on Pilgrimage Routes: Images, History, Memory
Examination of images and their memory on pilgrimage routes with special focus on Walsingham.