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:
Sums up basic aspects of women and pilgrimage for this encyclopedia on women and gender.
Focus on literary theory and pilgrimage texts such as Chaucer and Langland. Theoretical approaches to medieval literary pilgrimage texts.
Explores aspects of gender and women with pilgrimage practice. Theoretical, art historical, literary, and historical aspects.
Examination of images and their memory on pilgrimage routes with special focus on Walsingham.
Explores the prehistory of Ophelia's reference to Walsingham and the sacred and profane aspects of her utterance. Pilgrimage badges are explored.
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.
Religious pluralism; inter-faith; urban theology; pilgrimage as a metaphor; migration; Lourdes
Therese of Lisieux; relics; reverse pilgrimage; Salford; saints