Peter Brown and Victor Turner Revisited: Anthropological Approaches to Latin Miracle Narratives in the Medieval West
Discusses anthropological approaches to medieval saints' cults.
Discusses anthropological approaches to medieval saints' cults.
Examines the tradition of female affective piety at saints' shrines in the Christian West and its representation in literature.
Sums up basic aspects of women and pilgrimage for this encyclopedia on women and gender.
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.
Focus on literary theory and pilgrimage texts such as Chaucer and Langland. Theoretical approaches to medieval literary pilgrimage texts.