Keyword/s: HOSPITALS, ISLAM, PILGRIMAGE IN BRITAIN, PILGRIMAGE-GENERAL, PILGRIMAGE-OTHER FAITHS, RELICS, SAINTS
Ref Type: Book
- Author
- Attlee, James
- Year
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published in
- London
- Accession No
- 07819
- pp
- 278
- location
- BKA
- Comment
Deals with the Cowley Road in Oxford. "A time may come in your life when you feel the need to make a pilgrimage." The Introduction, and some other chapters, deal with pilgrimage in general. The chapter "St Edmund's Well" deals with a sacred well. "Of Lepers, Lunatics and Layabouts" deals with the leper hospital of Bartlemas. "Dancing Sand and Zum-Zum Water" deals with the Islamic Hajj.