Curiosity and pilgrimage : the literature of discovery in fourteenth-century England

Date added to Library: July 6, 2023

Keyword/s: PILGRIMAGE-CANTERBURY, PILGRIMAGE-GENERAL, PILGRIMAGE-JERUSALEM, THEOLOGY

Ref Type: Book

Author
Zacher, Christian K.
Year
1976
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published in
Baltimore
Accession No
07742  
pp
198
location
BKA
Comment

"Curiositas" in the Middle Ages was a vice ; pilgrimage a commended practice. A study of this paradox. Much reference to Chaucer (see #00426, BKA) and the Travels of Sir John Mandeville (see #00100, BKA).